God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where y...
There had never been a shortage of fools in the world
If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.
She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.
Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not...
The sun had bled away every smell and left nothing.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You'.
When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.
And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not queasiness or fear that he would suddenly appear before us, a green and gibbering banshee whose purpose...
Do you drink?""Of course,I just said I was a writer.
You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new uni...
Ich sehe das so: Ein Kerl, der stirbt, bevor Gott es für ihn vorgesehen hatte, erlebt so etwas wie ein Baseballspiel, das wegen Regen abgebrochen wird. Die Sünden, die er begangen hat, zählen nicht. G...
You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.
Am I weird?Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.
A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
For readers, one of life’s most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers—not just capable of doing it (which Morris already knew), but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels. The first...
I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This isn't the Ouija board or the spirit-world we're talking about here, but just an...
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