Quotes About Impact

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

I kill with my heart, motherfucker

But hardly anybody ever finds out that their actions really, actually, hurt other people! People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart?

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

it's the stories of our childhood that make the deepest impressions and last the longest.

It was strange how some of childhood's words and ways fell at the wayside and were left behind, while others clamped tight and rode for life, growing the heavier to carry as time passed.

It was a moment he remembered for years after, as though a special small slice had been cut from the cake of time. If nothing fires between two people, such an instant simply falls back into the general wrack of memory.

No. I was going to say his work changed my life, but that's not right. I don't think a teenager has much of a life to change. I just turned eighteen last month. I guess what I mean is his work changed my heart.

For me, that emotional payoff is what it's all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.

If something got you to turn off T.V. , it's a total success

Story is something happening to someone you have been led to care about.

I was struck to my heart and through my heart, knocked clean out of my ordinary life.

Tell you what, why don't you think of whoever wrote your first good book? I'm talking about the one that got under you like a magic carpet and lifted you right off the ground. Do you know what I'm talking about?" They know. It's on every face that faces his.

Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight.

As the twig is bent, so the bough is shaped.

Fright and loss leave residue.

Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful

Great events turn on small hinges

People. People drag you down.