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I have a vamp body for you," Andrea said. "It's in the freezer." I gave her a nice smile. "You shouldn't have.
Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy.
I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn't very far.
You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.
What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.
There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.
Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.
I'm not putting them on,” said old Archie in indignation. “I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks.
He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself; he prefers the back seat - more room to spread out, you see.
It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map.
You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.
To love someone so deeply means also that it will hurt a thousand times more when he disappoints or leaves you
You've always had me ... and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hadn't taken this long for me to man up.
Don't make me flip you off" "Why would I deprive you of a favourite hobby?" "Because my finger's getting sore.
Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.
I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.
There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.
Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.
If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.
The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?
I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!
Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.
Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!
I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting.
I do believe in ghosts, or at least in some kind of persistent spiritual echoes of the past in certain places.
I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.
It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.
I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.
It's not knowing that drives you mad. It's imaging things that you wish you couldn't think up all by yourself.
I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.
How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.
In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.
In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no one speaks.
There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.