Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situati...
It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Case Closed, de Gerald Posner; Legend, de Edward Jay Epstein (una chifladura a lo Robert Ludlum, pero divertida); Oswald: un misterio americano, de Norman Mailer; y Mrs. Paine’s Garage, de Thomas Mall...
As Lily Cavenaugh says in The Talisman (and it was Peter Straub's line, not mine), You can never be too thin or too rich. And if you don't believe it, you were never really fat or really poor.
Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.
Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.
And what about those [writers' workshop] critiques, by the way? How valuable are they? Not very, in my experience, sorry. A lot of them are maddeningly vague. someone may say. It seems to occur to fe...
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Writing is the act of finding out what I think.
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.
Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake.
Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous.
I tend to scare myself.
I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part o...
Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time...
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.