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In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room.
She found herself thinking of how it would feel to be safely trapped in his arms, with no more possibility to choose.
You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.
When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.
If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.
Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.
He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret!
Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.
When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.
I'm 100 percent serious. I've been fighting for equality for women's issues my entire life, in the military included.
In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.
Getting the ideas are a struggle for me. I'm doing better now that I use the concentration tapes. More unusual ideas.
If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement? No one knows what he can do till he tries.
I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.
I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.
People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.
Expecting anybody else?" Shane asked Eve. "Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?" "Screw you, Collins.
I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?” “I started living with you guys.” “Oh, right.
Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.
Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.
there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.
When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.
I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.
Mom's always telling me to smile and hoping I'll turn into a smiley person, which, to be honest, is kind of annoying.
The wonderful thing about writing fiction is that no one is stopping you. There's no one saying, 'You can't do that.'
Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs.
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.
What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.
The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.
Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.
What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground.
Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance.
(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.
I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'
Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.
It's fun to be amazing, to be the star of the show, to have everyone watching you-even if you have to act like a pig.
This thing, reconciliation, isn't perfect, but we also must have hope. Without hope, there is nothing. So let's hope.