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All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying
I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.
When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.
how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.
I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.
I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.'
paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.
A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.
Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.
The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.
Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.
What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?
Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.
Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements.
Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.
I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.
You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.
I do have an innate understanding of where a story should or shouldn't go, in a way that I don't think can be taught.
Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.
Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?
I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.
I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys
My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.
The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.
Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.
A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.
Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.
No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.
I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
You must put fear out of your mind. Confront it with the belief that the past is over with, that a new life lies ahead.
I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.
Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.