Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.
I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.
God is out there watching you, even when you're away from home and that if you put your trust in God, you'll be all right in the end.
Now it was coming to an end, and it was like he was watching the last flicker of light wink out in the darkness of an endless tunnel.
I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.
I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.
Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.
By the early seventies I had become an Englishman - that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.
Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.
You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .
Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.
[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.
[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.
To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.
He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.
Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.
It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee." "No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it.
I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots.
The biggest achievement is to create silence. I think every real writer who has a passion to do justice to the world thinks this way.
I jump around in the plotting stage, where I basically just make a bulleted list of every damn thing that happens in the entire book.
I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test.
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for fear of being taken away.
In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.
The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.
I will sacrifice my comfort, my convenience, my economic position in order to stand in protest, but not impose that on everyone else.
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
What're you still doing up? You know all good little ninjas should be in bed, visions of homicidal sugarplums dancing in their heads.
You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.
I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.
My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic.
An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.
You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.
If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.
I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.
I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be
The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.