“ Your wolves have more wit than your maester, the wildling woman said. They know truths the grey man has forgotten. The way she said it made him shiver, and when he asked what the comet meant, she answ… George R.R. Martin
“ Yes, alive, said Fudge. That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t really understand it, and Dumbledore won’t explain properly — but anyway, he’s certainly got a body and i… J.K. Rowling
“ While writing the first draft is an exercise in shutting down all of the things we think we know so that the story features come tumbling out, the revision is the end of the joy ride. We pull on the g… Patricia Hickman
“ When Chief Black Hawk was defeated and captured in 1832, he made a surrender speech:I fought hard. But your guns were well aimed. The bullets flew like birds in the air, and whizzed by our ears like t… Howard Zinn
“ Unfortunately, to try to disconnect faith from vision is to do violence to the whole personality, and the whole personality participates in the act of writing. The tensions of being a Catholic novelis… Flannery O'Connor
“ This was the sort of ebullience and élan I prayed for when I felt the desire to write. I used to sit down and wait for this to happen. But it never did happen- not this way. It happened afterwards, so… Henry Miller
“ They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are ba… Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ The cave was cool and silent- thoroughly carpeted- with the most luxuriant mantle of mosses Alma Whittaker had ever seen.The cave was not merely mossy; it throbbed with moss. It was not merely green;… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The bald girl is emblematic of the problem. The problem is, for some reason you think you are going to meet the kind of girl who is not the kind of girl who would be at a place like this at this time… Jay McInerney
“ The au pair was bug-eyed. What happened back there?It's not our fault! Dan babbled. Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth Vaders without the mask!They're Benedictine monks! Nellie exclaimed. T… Gordon Korman
“ The angel popped his already mile high collar. She said she wanted the holiest thing in the house to do it. She got holey, all right, somebody muttered. Is that Butche's Bible? V asked. The angel flas… J.R. Ward
“ Still, as I tend to repeat, I have some instinct for survival, for self-preservation. And believing you have such an instinct is almost as good as actually having it, because it means you act in the s… Julian Barnes
“ Sometimes it was like Neil was from an alien planet, where people never asked for or shared anything emotional without deeply apologizing first. He assured me that he was simply British. And that we A… Amanda Palmer
“ Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. Dan Brown
“ Silence rose and crossed to the connecting door and knocked.The door was opened almost at once.Michael leaned a shoulder against the doorjamb, a wicked smile playing about his sensuous lips. He was so… Elizabeth Hoyt
“ She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, waxed fonder, in poverty… Charlotte Bronte
“ She can't afford to commit more troops,' Holly whispered. 'The gate is her priority, and she needs to have as many Berserkers watching her back as possible. We are secondary at this point.' Eoin Colfer
“ Now and then a pair of eyes would burn at us out of the dark ahead. I knew that they were the eyes of a cow–a poor dear stoic old cow with a cud, standing on the highway shoulder, for there wasn't any… Robert Penn Warren
