It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.
Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you—because you know how to pe...
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
Add doom to the list, then. Especially in families, doom is altogether common. Sorrow floats; love, too; and – in the long run – doom. It floats, too.
With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.
It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnan...
You'd better leave your chromosomes at the door.
There's nothing as scary as the future.
She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only the truth of observation, which was the truth of mere journalism. The best fict...
Real life is too sloppy a model for good fiction, Juan Diego had said.
Of course, everyone is intolerant of something or someone.
In Ruth's view, they looked 'like a couple' because they seemed to possess some terrible secret between them - they appeared stricken with remorse when they saw her. Only a novelist could ever imagine...
I was four, and I sincerely believe that this is my first memory of life itself – as opposed to what I was told happened, as opposed to the pictures other people have painted for me.
Here was the world-famous novelist with her penchant for detail; yet, in her observations of a prostitute with a customer, she had failed to come away with the most important detail of all. She could...
Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
Did anyone who was in love and was unsatisfied with how he was loved in return ever feel saved?
Clothes, whips, reading material, the customs officer had summarized, in Spanish and English, to the young American. Just the bare essentials! Edward Bonshaw
Ad majorem Dei gloriam—to the greater glory of God.
I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.
…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.