Preemptive strike,' said Huw, 'must mean not declaring war until your cameras are in position.
Prejudice is permafrost
Prescient woman called Meronym visited my dwellin’ for a spell, an’ nothin’d be the same, not in my life, not in the Valleys, nay, not never.
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, Cortes'll lay Tenochtitlan to waste again, and later...th...
Psychological complexity, character development, the killer line to end a scene, villains blotched with virtue, heroic characters speckled with villainy, foreshadow and backflash, artful misdirection.
You were five or six, Raf. When you washed up on the rocks below you were in shock, you had hypothermia, you’d seen slaughter at close quarters, you’d drifted for heaven only knows how long in the col...
Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.
Regret' implies a freely chosen, but erroneous, action; free will plays no part in my story.
You are the man. You have to take your dignity and self respect to the pawnbrokers.
Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late, but it's the first thing I think of when I wake, and the last thing I think of before I fall asleep, even if...
Sawing the head off a thunder god with a rusty hacksaw is not easy when you are eleven years old.
Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs contrary, however. To wit: history admits no rules, only outcome...
Scholars discern motions of history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs contrary, however. To wit: history admits no rules, only outcome...
Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret,...
The river’s vowels and the trees’ consonants speak a not-quite-foreign language.
Uzaemon is no longer surprised by Shuzai's perspicacity. I don't know if I have the right to involve you.To a believer in Fate, replies Shuzai, it's not you who is involving me.
This druid feeling I get in the woods’s so thrilling it makes me want to crap, so I dug a hole with a flat stone inside a clump of mitten-leafed shrubs. I pulled down my cacks and squatted. It’s ace s...
She didn’t tell me to use a condom, so I didn’t: a bit of a risk, but it’s her risk, not mine,
She has four sons, Nurse Purvis leads me on, all with a London post code, but they never visit. You’d think old age was a criminal offense, not a destination we’re all heading to. I consider airing my...
She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
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