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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.
I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.
People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.
Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.
To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.
Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.
I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.
So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.
I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.
I was very happy, I think part of the point of this creativity is to do something that helps you in a cathartic sense.
Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.
How Do you spell relax?" I whispered, holding his head with my hands. I think the answer is f-u-c-k-m-e." He answered.
For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.
I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.
That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
I never imagined anyone like you, Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you, I’m humbled that you chose me.
I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.
I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.
Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.
Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.
At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.
People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of the time. This is new, 'final' offensive of the Empire in Latin America.
Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.
Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.
Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.
Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him