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Man plans. God laughs.
I'm not very happy idle.
I'm not a big sports fan.
Only bad writers think they're good.
I'm a little bit of a control freak.
I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
You bring your own weather to the picnic.
Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.
This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.
Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.
Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.
So basically your plan is to flail about helplessly.
A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.
More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.
I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.
There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.
Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something
We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.
You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.
Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.
The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.
If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.
If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.
I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.
I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.
In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.
"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely."
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.
A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once
Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?
I would rather raise certain topics and maybe let you ruminate on them. I'm not big on answering them.
You want this so badly—this second chance, this chance at real redemption—that you can’t see the truth.
The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.
Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.