Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.
Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!
I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.
Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me.
Nothing comes of so many things, if you have patience.
My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.
Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.
I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.
Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?
Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.
Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.
How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.
A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.
I really love to set things in places that are real to me.
Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.
I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.
Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.
Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.
Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.
Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented.
Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me.
The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.
All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.
I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.
God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.
Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.
The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.
The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview.
She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.
Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.
Not even the most devastating truth can be told; it must be evoked.
Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.
A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.
I don't believe in predestination - except for genetic predilections.
I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.
The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.
Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.
My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted.
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.