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After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.
Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.
In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are
There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.
If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
For once I've met somebody, the years cannot erase... The memory of a pleasant word or of a friendly face...
That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.
The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.
Throughout my entire life, I have lived in the shadow of the dictatorship. It denied me safety and security.
The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.
Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.
There's a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received.
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark, but $120 for an earthquake emergency kit just seems unreasonable.
Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.
Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?
I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.
When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.
Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.
That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.
With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.
I didn't know how many independent bookstores had amazing wine lists until I toured with 'Another Brooklyn.'
The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.
He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.
Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.
I like the Nova Corps; I just don't like Nova that much! He's okay, you know? I just don't like that helmet!
I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.
Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.
When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky
If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.