Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Every time I see something about the Wild West, I'm reminded that our version of history may not be what really happened.
It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.
I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.
Write every day. You don't have to write about anything specific, but you should exercise your writing muscle constantly.
I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.
I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.
This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.
There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.
Stern and critical, my father couldn't accept how feminine and dainty I was in comparison to my rough-and-tumble brother.
I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.
My favorite aspect of being an author has always been visiting different communities and meeting my readers face to face.
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable
There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.
But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
With a complicated childhood, you can either focus on the positive or the negative, and I chose to focus on the positive.
I would love to learn archery. Unfortunately I'm too busy writing and drawing ten thousand comics a month. Maybe one day!
When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.
Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.
I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm right where I belong.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.
A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.]
Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. [Ger., Aber wer fest auf dem Sinne beharrt, der bildet die Welt sich.]
There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.
The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.
'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife.
If I'm honest, I suppose there's something I don't want people to see in my eyes. They really are the window to the soul.
I think many times we charge the Lord for things we can do ourselves. If only we realized how well we have been equipped.
Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
The pieces I've written for 'Outside' magazine are definitely my best work, and they're virtually all about the outdoors.
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.
I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?
These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.
I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?
Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.
Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.
The mind has powers that allow us to go beyond our normal or habitual way of being, and beyond what we think is possible.
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.