Quotes About Author

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

Writing fiction has always, for me, been an alchemy of turning pain into poetry, ugliness into beauty. It has been a kind of redemption.

her mother. "It's too windy." The umbrella

Real life was like a plot by Dickens . . .

Who could possibly benefit but another knitting shop owner?

But "stressed out" is not a neutral behavior; it is a sinful manifestation of an unquiet heart.

we had to coin the term "stressed out" to describe this common condition of a disordered heart.

I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! - sailor moon

Sailor Moon, you likely will be forever immortal. For you are the most beautiful, shining heavenly body of all time.

intuition is just like that: sudden and complete, as if there were machinery working behind her eyes that even she has no access to. Clank, thunk.

He'd said, "I am stranded a long way from home and there is no way to get back." "We all are," she'd said.

When this thing happens, she is calm, floating above the storm, watching the raging sea below.

Well, apparently addressing racial inequality in one's work is un-American, so I was hauled before the committee.

To articulate the attitudes against us would give them power and credence.

I am the world's most badass cat picture aficionado. I recommend that you put down your gun and surrender.

Magic was singing in me, through me; I felt the murmur of his power singing back that same song.

And who wanted to live near that dangerous campus up in Harlem anyway?

Iriski. They make them special at this little coffee shop in Kazan. It's toffee with a chocolate center.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.

'Twas my object to carry terror and destruction wherever we went.

La novela que yo escribí es una novela sin puntos ni comas. No tenía ganas de ponérselas. Y explico por qué. Las comas son como los pasos. Los pasos producen cansancio y yo no tenía ganas de cansarme, me sentía sin fuerzas y no quería caminar, sino sentarme y recostarme.

Your opinion doesn't count. Your fond hopes and fantasies of Paradigms Found don't count. What counts is the quality and the quantity of the evidence.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.