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For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.
I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.
Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
Well, how'd we get to talking about our ancestors? People think we don't talk about anything else in Charleston.
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird
People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.
Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.
It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.
In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.
Anyone who's ever tried to tangle with a teddy bear cholla knows there's a whole lot more bear than teddy to it.
I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.
The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.
You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back
I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.
I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.
I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.
every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.
Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.
I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.
What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax.
I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more.
In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.
She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.
A relationship needs constant attention. It’s a living thing, not just a habit. You’ve got to keep on top of it.
My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.
there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls
"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable
With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.
When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!
I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.
There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.
But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.