Quotes from F. Paul Wilson

The chief thing is desire. You've really got to want to do it, you've really got to want to tell that story. And you have to be able to set goals for yourself to get it done.

And if you show me a mathematical formula, all you are showing me is a piece of paper with strange markings on it, and I have no way of knowing not only whether the markings are actually there, but whether the piece of paper exists.

Oh, how this sucked. This sucked so thoroughly. It was hard to even quantify the level of suck involved here.

Milo remembered an old saying his father used to quote to him when he was a boy: Beware the wrath of a patient man.

I will." They both knew that was a lie, but Jack was doing

What about compassion? 

Dr. Alston?  It's Marge, down at the office...Yes, we called him...No, apparently he's decided to go to Yale instead...That's right, sir...No, I don't know why...Yes, sir, I certainly can do that, but I think you should know, one of the wait-list students is right here...Dr. Alston?  Are you there?...Yes

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

There can be no coexistence with monsters'" Glenn said, "be they Nazis or Nosferatu. Excuse me." He

You are not expected to. You are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience." Cuza

Tim pressed a finger to his lips.  "Careful, my friend.  The walls may have ears.

covered with a think

I had never heard of it, but then I do not clutter my mind with trivialities such as tales of ancient sunken cities and such. They take up room that might be more usefully occupied by facts and theories related to solving crimes. I recall how Watson was shocked when he learned that I could not name the planets, and had no idea that they numbered eight. But really, of what use is such information? None.

I always say that Religion and Politics are just clever ways to make un-content people content with their un-contentedness.

Don't aim a gun if you have no intention of pulling the trigger.  And if you do pull the trigger, shoot to kill.

Thrall is a feast of both visceral and existential horror – the gut tightens and the mind reels. Mary Sangiovanni joins that select cadre of women writers who are ignoring the safe old tropes and pushing the genre in new directions.

April 19 King Kong Day

during their previous stays, but in a rather perfunctory

You put us through all that for a book? Why' 'Well number one: He had it and it's mine. And number two: It's mine and he had it.

Rich, but not Trump-rich.

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.