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it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.
Cornell changed my life; getting in there was one of my pinnacle moments.
All my life, I never realized you could have a conversation with a ghost.
I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
I had feared that love would make me vulnerable. Instead I felt empowered.
Believe with all your heart that how you live your life makes a difference
The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.
Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.
There are no failed ideas, just ideas that haven't found their moment yet.
God moves in mysterious ways. All gods do. It's the only way they can work.
As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.
I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.
Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.
We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will.
The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.
You are as responsible for what you let happen as for the actions you share.
Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.
There is no greater threat to progress than the phrase, 'That's impossible.'
Know that you're gonna screw up, and be OK with it, and do better next time.
Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout.
The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own.
Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.
Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.
Psychos and megalomaniacs are my forte, remember? They all wanna hang with me
We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.
But druggies don't keep their looks any longer than they keep their promises.
What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.
Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters.
Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.
To know a language intimately is to understand the soul of those who speak it.
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.
No one can tell time except approximately, time never stands still to be named.
We have people who are healers and those who posses a certain animal magnetism.
I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.
I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.
I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.
I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.
As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.
It is expensive to live in hotels, even cheap ones - more expensive than renting.
I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
The definition of a Dark Age is that we no longer remember what we once could do.
Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.
While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love.
Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science.
Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.
This is what happens when you take a step: you are moving closer to what you want.
I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.
The "we" voice is rare, and the communal impulse of the "we" is interesting to me.