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When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.
Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.
My books are offered through Podiobooks.com and the iTunes Music Store as free audio downloads. I don't sell them.
When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.
One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
If you say you’re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don’t revoke that privilege when he needs it most.
I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.
I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.
The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.
The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.
Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits.
The scene was set. All that was required was an action, a cold start, instant and brutal as beginnings always are.
All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.
They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard.
At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
I looked at comics like a buffet table, where you take a little bit of something and leave the other stuff behind.
Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.
In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.
To win men to acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord is the only reason Christians are left in this world.
When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.
For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.
I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.
The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.