He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.
Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Franny’s Hollywood name, her acting name, is one you know. This is our family’s story, and it’s inappropriate for me to use Franny’s stage name – but I know that you know her. Franny is the one you al...
Finches are seed eaters, but Dr. Daruwalla didn’t know this, nor did the doctor know that the green parrot perching on the vine had feet with two toes pointing forward and two backward. These were the...
Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world!
Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someon...
Even Clark French’s novels exerted a tenacious and combative goodwill: his main characters, lost souls and serial sinners, always found redemption; the act of redeeming usually followed a moral low po...
DON'T GIVE ME THE SHIVERS,' Owen said.
Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or...
Come amiamo amar le cose per conto di altri! Come amiamo che altri amino le cose tramite i nostri occhi
But comedy is ingrained. A writer doesn't choose to be comic. You can choose a plot, or not to have one. You can choose your characters. But comedy is not a choice; it just comes out that way.
Because of A Prayer for Owen Meany, many of my readers assume I am religious. I go to church only occasionally—like a lot of people, I believe in God in times of crisis. But I have had no religious ex...
And Clark clearly knew and disapproved of El Nido. (A nido could be a nest, a den, a hole, a haunt.)
An aura of fate had marked him. He moved slowly; he often appeared to be lost in thought, or in his imagination—as if his future were predetermined, and he wasn’t resisting it.
After twenty years in Canada, there are certain American lunatics who still fascinate me.
A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.
A loving couple will say things to each other - you know, Danny - just to make each other feel good about a situation, even if the situation isn't good, or it they shouldn't feel good about i, Ketchum...
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
But I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar -- you live next to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commo...
Семь лет мы все не более чем дрейфовали по течению, но и не тонули.