If it ran, a Bean would shoot it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.

I sit on the bed. I remember a golden bracelet, thin gold, an apple with a bite taken out of it for the clasp, and the words "I Love You," and I take it out from the box of treasures under the bed. I...

Reading takes the reader to faraway lands, new cultures, new and exciting adventures; you meet new friends and enemies; it takes the reader from the heights of the imagination to the depths of human e...

If it ran, a Bean would eat it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.

Pluto claimed that in ancient times, all humans had been a combination of male and female. Each person had two heads, four arms, four legs. Supposedly, these combo-humans had been so powerful they mad...

In ActualHuman Rights are"caring" for Humans left on the planet

In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of man.....poetry and fiction are based upon woman's love, and the movements of history are main...

The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to...

Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

I am a knight riding from tower to tower seeking a princess to rescue but all the dragons are slain, the towers are empty and the princesses taken.

All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed.

Sin says, "Do you think that people get married with aspirations to divorce? Do you think that people try drugs with the motive to be addicted? No. It is not merely the act that you see taking place,...

An exceptional woman with all the desired qualities exists only in a man's imagination.

There is no truth, only science and fiction.

Why not?

A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Family is a permanent adhesive that creates a lifetime bond.

Good writing should help us see the world in new ways, it should crack open our generosity towards each other. That's what I hope my work does anyway. I want someone to read it and know that they aren...