His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.
On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?
I find an empty page friendlier than speaking to another person.
His blank face communicated an emptiness that could never be filled- Frank Balenger
He strode with the weight of robbed innocence and a stolen childhood, for a life time of pain and anger, of terror and death.- Frank Balenger
You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the...
Hey, what about you? That monastery didn’t make you soft, I hope. The Cistercians? Chris laughed. Make me soft? They’re the toughest order in the Catholic Church. They really don’t talk? Not only that...
I've heard this called st. peter's square, arlene said. but it isn't square. it's oval.
He was a God who observed without intervening in this hell he created -Carlisle
Don't you love it when a plan comes together? Carl
Don't give in to doubt. Never be discouraged if your first draft isn't what you thought it would be. Given skill and a story that compels you, muster your determination and make what's on the page clo...
The anxiety of the unpredictable came only when you dealt with amateurs
It's not polite to pass out when you've got company. Conversation,
there are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitionersof them
Delegations
Anybody who tries to pass me will have a headache.
There is no such thing as forgetting, he murmured.
Lies were told to start the war. Lies were told to cover mistakes. The Pentagon wouldn’t fully commit to special-operations units, which meant that conventional tactics were used against guerrilla for...
So they spread the paintings on the lawn, and the boy explained each of them. This is the school, and this is the playground, and these are my friends. He stared at the paintings for a long time and t...
I suppose none of what I'm saying matters. In a few years a search like this won't even be necessary. We have instruments now that can be mounted on the underside of an airplane. To find a man all you...