Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.
I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.
The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
(Yes teenage boys who are fine always cry on their mothers’ shoulders until they leave a snot trail.)
There are really no guidelines whatsoever, because this is the kind of thing that only happens to ME.
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.
If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round.
If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.
This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'.
Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.
I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.
Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.
...because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.
What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.
You're only limited by your passion and your imagination. Be open to the possibilities, take chances.
When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart (Allen Walker, D-gray Man)
Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
Derek picked the spot? Had he been hoping I'd be blinded by the morning sun and stumble off the edge?
I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching 'Scooby Doo.'
Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.
Over the decades people from all walks of life have told me, 'When your father died, so did my hope.'
Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.
The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them.
It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.
Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.
My beloved child, break your heart no longer. Each time you judge yourself, you break your own heart.
the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.
It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.
All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.
She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].
We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.
The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.
Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks
Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.
I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.