Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A boy is a dangerous animal.
My own apathy is bone chilling.
Time itself made all things rare.
For the living, death is thievery.
Most books are three-thirds rubbish.
Hypersensitivity has become a weapon.
The secret is that there is no secret.
Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.
Certainly, critics are not all created equal.
Happiness isn't a position. It's a trajectory.
it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.
You can't be stylish and petty at the same time.
So many stories are determined before they start.
Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat
Ultimately, Hillary and Obama are on the same side.
The existence of other people is essentially awkward.
We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.
The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.
Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.
Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.
I have never in all my life considered you other people.
A smaller waist is not the solution to all your problems.
Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.
How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.
Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.
Clearly, freedom does not extend to the right to harm other people.
It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.
Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .
Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes.
Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power.
Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.
I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.
...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.
The dumbest childhood vow I ever made was to finish every book I started.
But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.
Beauty is aspirational - an ideal that mortals approach but seldom attain.
It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.
I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.
That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.
Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities.
Few Amazon punters will explore a book with the depth of an 800-word review.
I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.
However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.
Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.
I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.