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Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel.

If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.

I know that by the time I was in middle school, Andre Norton was definitely my favorite author.

Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.

Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.

Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists.

Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you.

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.

Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.

On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

They gave me eyes. All of you are beautiful; you shine like stars. But I must go away with them.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.

There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.

Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.

It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.

We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

I have always noticed that people only think you are stupid if you do things differently from them.

Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.

I'm very excited about taking over the reins on Vampirella. I've really been enjoying myself so far.

I've seen men in $5,000 suits urinate in public fountains here. Las Vegas is the best place on earth.

If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.

The face of the sun is not without expression, but it tells us precious little of what is in its heart.

Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.

I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.

There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

'The Grace of Kings' was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life.

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