Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.
It's easier to crush a dream than realize one, forming a bond is infinitely more difficult than breaking one
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.
What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you...Look.
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.
I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.
Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.
And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.
Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls.
All calls for justice require that victims feel avenged, and revenge is never just if it’s disproportionate.
You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.
In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount.
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.
Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.
So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.
Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.
I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.
I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
Leave her out of this" "Why? Because you're doing her? Oh wait, I forgot. Stiffs don't do that sort of thing
But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.
I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?
The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making
He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.
Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.