Quotes About Author

May I venture an explanation: writing is the ultimate recourse for those who have betrayed

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

pacifisme extrême, il le maintient lors de la mobilisation, ce qui lui vaut son incarcération quelque temps, tandis qu'en 1944, malgré une vie publique très discrète pendant l'Occupation, il est arrêté à nouveau, comme Vichyssois cette fois.

And the truth is, the world is full of therapists who'll sit you down, take your money, massage your self-esteem, and send you on your way, without ever helping you understand how you helped create the circumstances that brought you here.

So tell me now. Please. Is there anything you've heard today, or anything in your life, your character, that would prevent you from being the open-minded jurors we need you to be?

Brooklyn Heights, where a frankly socialist ethos stood in bald contrast to soaring tuition

In her new, albeit fragile, mood, this letter does not unduly distress her. One lesson she has learned is that any opinion expressed by a person who does not understand how to use an apostrophe may be disregarded with impunity.

I just care about the story. Either it's a good plot or it isn't. And if it's not a good plot, the best writing isn't going to help. And if it is, the worst writing isn't going to hurt it.

The jaws of darkness do devour it up All's cheerless, dark, and deadly. The best is past Thou'lt come no more Sally

I was aghast by the betrayal those thoughts represented, by the callous creature they proved me to be.

Je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho.

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands... It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.

Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

The difference in the brains of men and women was imposed by nature, and only cemented by culture.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.