Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.
Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.
In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.
Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.
Time is the speed at which the past decays.
The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth
Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my first-born novel, laughed at my phrasing, twirled my lacy pretensions around and gobbed into the seething mosh pit of my stolen clichés. As I read the report, the world became very quiet and stopped rotating. What poisoned me was the fact that the report's criticisms were all absolutely true. The sound of my landlady digging in the garden got the world moving again. I slipped the letter into the trash... knowing I'd remember every word.
Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's not the end.
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.
I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.
Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.
Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!
Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we call life, and the beginning of an eternal voyage in a company of our Loved Ones, with griefs and woes smoothed out, and under the capacity of our Creator.
Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.
What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.
There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.
Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.
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