Quotes About Author

During the decades that Joe Smith lived here, he engaged in a construction project

In the damp sand, the footprints of two men arc from the beached boat to the stairway

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead character in the story, but like every man and woman on Earth, I am a supporting player in one of billions of subplots. You know what happens to supporting players. Too often they are killed off in chapter three or in chapter ten, or in chapter thirty-five. A supporting player always has to be looking over his shoulder.

Not worried exactly, but puzzled, I went down to the dock

She shrugs into a beige sport coat and drops the two spare magazines in its pockets.

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.

When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order, and I found it in knitting. In fact, I've even read that knitting can lower stress more effectively than meditation.

I've got a loose tooth. Look." She started pushing

She likened Montana with Rocky Mountain oysters and thick, blood-filled steaks cooked over an open fire.

As the spiritual coordinator for this part of Tacoma, Celeste Chapeaux had been assigned to oversee Harry.

television in the summer was just plain bad.

Common thieves like Ludlow were simply another London

I'm human. The single most overused excuse on the planet for doing the absolute wrong thing.

She never bought jackets without sufficient pockets because she hated carrying handbags or anything else on the job that set her apart from the male detectives.

I heard her surprise and then the sigh as we began the rhythm of connection and self-absorption, the miracle of sex.

Before the use of asteroids, the only significators of the feminine in traditional chart interpretation were the Moon and Venus.

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

Mis ideas son mis rameras

Yo os haría una pregunta, señor ¿por qué, entre todas ls ideas funestas que pasan por la cabeza de una religiosa desesperada, no está la de pegarle fuego a la casa?

The Past just left. Its remnants, I claim, are mostly fiction. We're stranded here with the threadbare patchwork of memory, you with yours, I with mine.

eventually these encounters forced him to acknowledge the reality of fate, and the truth inherent in things of the imagination.

Nobody's going to cook me and eat me, I hope. People don't quite understand, Michael said, and he may have been serious, to be eaten pays a compliment to your power.