Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.
I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic.
I think that nonexistent mythological creature just broke some of your toes," Jack said. Oh, shut up," said Charles
For my first week as a new boy at Radley College, back in the summer of 1979, I was followed around by a film crew.
One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.
So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?
Readers are always surprised to learn that authors have little or no input regarding the cover art for their books.
Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.
You're probably gonna find this hard to believe, but I was sort of weird when I was a kid." Salvatore "Sally" Sweet
Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.
I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down." Grandma Mazur
Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out?" Lula
You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.
When you try rescuing someone and discover they can't be reached, why would you ever throw that back in their face?
There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.
The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
There is definitely a thematic lineage between 'Descender' and my previous work, like 'Sweet Tooth' and 'Trillium.'
That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.
I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'
People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.
Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.
It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.
In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew
The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.
To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.
The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.
Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.
Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are primordial ideas, the children of light.
I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.
[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.
It was very deliberate that Daring Fireball wasn't defined as a Mac site or an Apple site, and this was fortuitous.
I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.
Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.
When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.