Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.
Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.
There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.
Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.
The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.
We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.
Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.
A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.
Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.
You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.
We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.
Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!
I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.
What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one
Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.
Every time I set foot on that trail, I feel grateful for the PCTA for doing the work it does to protect and preserve it
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.
A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.
A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.
And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.
I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.
A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.
People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.
I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.
Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.
It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.
Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.
When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.