Quotes About Author

The prophylactic for culturally transmitted diseases is free thinking

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

When I have a chapter finished, I jot down who the viewpoint characters are, what they are wearing, what happened in the chapter. So as I go along, I outline each book as I write it. I never outline ahead of the writing, but after the writing is done. That keeps the creative side of my brain in control of the writing.

Chain letters are not illegal. What is illegal is to threaten lives in such letters or solicit money.

It is important to remember that in its simplest form the nervous system is merely a mechanism by which a muscular movement can be initiated by some change in the peripheral sensation, say, an object touching the skin.

Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

He was dressed like a tourist, his T-shirt tucked into belted jeans like a sociopath.

If you really believed that God preserved you in order to see this scheme to fruition, you are even more delusional than I first thought," I said in considerable exasperation. "It is impossible to argue with a mind that does not admit scientific fact and relies instead upon dogma delivered by the hand of an invisible author.

Jesus, what did you have for breakfast? A bowl of Honey Bunches of Bitch?

What in the name of Satan's arsehole is that?" he demanded. "The genitals of a very healthy young man," I told him, waving the phallus-shaped lamp.

Mary Hathaway is the worst sort of provincial," I put in. We smiled at one another, bonded - as women frequently are - by our mutual dislike of another.

no stewardess would be caught dead with torn pantyhose." Helen brandishes a familiar plastic egg. "I brought spares. Please go change while you still have time. I'll start the coffee.

I'm not," Stoker put in. "No parson would dare be that sanctimonious. I can smell the stink of our eldest brother all over that particular remark

berated her talent, her eye, her morals, and would no doubt have gone further had not Emma Talbot stepped forward.

might be more fun to spring it on you in court if

And she patted her sleek black bob and followed the lure of the music inside.

The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.