Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?
Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.
I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
I think it is commonplace for parties to change candidates and reshuffle ministries to bring in new faces.
Development of Kendrapada is now my responsibility. I will personally monitor development of the district.
[Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day.
Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.
Love should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself.
Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.
He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.
I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.
The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a movie at the same time.
There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.
Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.
Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.
Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.
He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.
The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.
The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.
If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.
I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.
If you are not careful, soon you will have men locking themselves in dungeons so that you can rescue them.
I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.
I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.
I just—we were talking, and we fell asleep. I swear, we didn’t, um—’’ ‘‘Yeah, you’d better not have ummed.
You can't go around... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just... unsanitary.
I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.
To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.
Woodcuts have a really timeless sort of feel, and they feel like a book that's a couple hundred years old.
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
One film critic back in the early days said "It's a pity Mr. Harryhausen didn't animated the actors, too."
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.