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Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.
He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a kid.
But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.
I always craft my words to the point where I think and hope they're perfect before I ever begin sketching.
Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.
When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?
Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.
This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.
Women may get to wear lots of pretty colors, but men get the comfortable shoes. Anita Blake Vampire Hunter
If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.
I'm in loooove with this boy, and when you in love with someone, you don't give up on 'em, mo matter what.
She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.
It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.
If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.
The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.
Death is a grave mistake! Physical immortality takes forever. It is the only cause that you can't die for.
You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.
I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then
I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.
It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.
Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.
If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.
Dammit!" "What?" Gonzo sounds panicked. "We're out of gas." "You're Shithenging me." "I Shithenge you not.
You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far.
Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.
I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'
We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.
The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.
You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.
Those are the love killers. They love you and then they kill you. They're from another planet. Supposedly.
You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.
If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.
O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.
Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
Luke', I said, and immediately added, 'My boyfriend.' My supernatural, doomed, gorgeous, killer boyfriend.
Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.
Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.
'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin.
The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.