Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There's someone out there who needs you. You must live your life so that person can find you.
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!
Maybe your pregnant. Oops, hold on, you're not pregnant, on account of you're not gettin any.
I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.
I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.
A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.
'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.
This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.
Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.
Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD?
I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.
There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'.
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
When I write Superboy and other DC characters, it's about boiling them down to core concepts.
Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.
I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.
As much as I disagree with Sarah Palin, there's no denying that she was the victim of sexism.
Life is messy, and it's okay if you are too! We all screw up, that doesn't have to define us.
I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be.
That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.
I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.
It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.
A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.
Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real.
Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.
Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.
Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.
Being embraced by the British people is a beautiful compliment for me. It feels very special.
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.
I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.
People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.
If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it.
Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.
I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?