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Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time.
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.
Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.
Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn't, because we'll always live on the edge until the day we die.
From one king to another, know that I'm giving you the middle finger right now." And he was, with a smile.
Her perfume or soap or whatever it was reminded him of sandalwood and something else. Oh, right...orgasms.
With that, he looked over his shoulder. Blay's breath shot out of his lungs. "Oh... my God," he whispered.
Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage. ---Beth about Wrath
Love was worth sacrificing for, he thought as he left his room. Even if it wasn't yours. -Phury's thoughts
I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.
It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.
My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.
He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.
If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.
Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.
Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.
Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.
Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.
She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.
You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.
I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.
It's very hard to deal with true subject matter, especially when you're writing about such weighty issues.
Sometimes the best things are the ones that aren’t planned, the decisions made while living in the moment.
In 'Bayou Magic,' I bring in the cultural tradition of African mermaids - Mami Wata, the mother goddesses.
This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.
Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.
There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.
I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.
Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.