Quotes About Author

On a psychiatric test administered while she was in custody she completed the sentence "Most men ..." with the words "... are assholes".

If anyone had unfinished business, he did. If anyone needed more time, he did. He was going to wander for years at the edge of my line of sight.

A physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

staying, that he mustn't be at all demonstrative towards Vi, that it would seem, in front of the poor

Then she went into the living room to turn the thermostat down to an energy-saving sixty-five degrees, flicked on the television to keep Moishe company

hour after church services on Sunday." "No problem," Hannah said, heading off to the

How nice," I murmured. Uh-oh. That hadn't been the

How many books does she have? I asked her that and she said she had enough to make two brawny movers weep.

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

Wisdom isn't everything. Survival requires an element of trickery, Chaos, subterfuge. All qualities I possess (if I may say so) in abundance.

Can't you shut that dog up? The boy gave me a pitying look. Not really, he said. Vlad's a believer in free speech.

Please! yelled Loki. I am not being noble!

All right, Monsieur Jay,' she said, smiling. 'I'll tell them you're OK.

I might call in to see you anyway,' she said. 'If only to annoy the curé.

The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.

Or. I hate that word. It's two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.

Objection! Metz shouts. Grounds? the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!

His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.

we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night- because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than the law.

The problem isn't with rock lyrics, it's with the fabric of this society itself.

never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring

That was how I learned that the world changes between heartbeats; that life is never an absolute, but always a wager.

I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.