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Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means.
No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.
If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.
So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?
Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.
Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.
Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.
It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.
One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.
Slinky as a lynx, hot as pepper, cool as rain, dry as smoke. There's considerably more to her than staying sexy at 60.
To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.
Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.
My tweeting is cool and calm unless I am riled up about something and then I just surrender to the fury of my fingers.
I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.
It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule.
My life is very busy with a lot of things, and so I don't get uninterrupted time. When I do, I can just write all day.
Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.
On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!
When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
Sing, for faith and hope are high- None so true as you and I- Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"
It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.
Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner
When I came to 'Gourmet,' I had no clue how to run a magazine; for television, I am fascinated to learn about editing.
What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!
If I wish to be well in my mind, then I must write, and there is no cure for my ambition, and thank the Lord for that.
I'm often daydreaming and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was
Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
Is raising boys different from raising girls? Oh my goodness, yes! It's a different species, and I love them for that.
The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.
If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?
Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.
We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.
Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.
Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.
I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.
So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.
But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.
I don't think he likes girls", I said. "Or boys. Look at the horror on his face. He doesn't look like a people person.
With books like 'AD: After Death' and 'Wytches,' a lot of those things are inspired by reading things that terrify me.
Turn yourself over to Aksel, and I might let her go. (Arast) Yeah, right. And I’m a one-legged dung dealer. (Nykyrian)
You were right. My whole crew. Gone. Arrested. Perfect. Shoot me now and save me the expense of a bullet later. (Tory)
Thank you, Shay. (Syn) For what? (Shahara) For looking into the eyes of nothing and seeing a man you could love. (Syn)
Move or die. (Quills) Never give someone a choice that doesn’t leave them with any way out except to hurt you. (Devyn)