Quotes About Author

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.

I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.

Sugar is a bad sweet that I made obsolete. -Johnny The Walker

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

It was not, they observed with exquisite understatement, a cry for help.

I'm not very romantic in real life. I guess love is the thing that makes us do the most extraordinary things—the emotion that can bring us highest or lowest, or be the most transformative—and extremes of emotion are always interesting to write about.

Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've...um...entertained his wife.

I had a vague memory of the intensity of teenage female relationships; more of a passion than a normal friendship.

Oh, Louisa, you can hang on to your hurt out of some misplaced sense of pride, or you can just let go and relish whatever precious time you have.

As logic went, it was pretty impressive. I could tell because Mum's mouth was working like someone feeling a loose tooth, but she couldn't come up with any reason why Lily was wrong.

my phone, strolled downstairs for too-strong hospital

provenance." The judge coughs and examines his notes. Paul murmurs to the woman director

But I'm not an automaton. I'm human and I have a life, and just for a short while I had responsibilities that meant I couldn't be the employee you—or I—would have liked.

I was partly flattered, but mostly grateful that this implied he wasn't offended by my earlier reticence.

watering the Japanese anemones naked again last week and you know what the police said about that. Liv x The last

completely insane algebraic equations?" "You know us too well." Jess sat down in her

There is blood in my mouth, warm and tasting of iron.

day fiction, but two of the best books I've read recently—Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel and The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber—are set several centuries ago.

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous, as you can't always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

By some beneficence of the shift-scheduling gods, Sam and I both had a day off.

I walked back across the road straight past him, fumbling in my bag for my keys. Why did fingers always turn into cocktail sausages at moments of stress?

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