In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to k...
It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.
It was like drowning, only from the inside out.
It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He...
It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.
It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.
It's offense you maybe can't live with because it opens up a crack inside your thinking, and if you look down into it you see there are evil things down there, and they have little yellow eyes that do...
I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing… I can always get a J. Crew catalogue… …So spare me,...
Jesus watches from the wall,But his face is cold as stone,And if he loves meAs she tells meWhy do I feel so all alone?
Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.
Kindle, isn’t it? the waitress asked. I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I’m reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult’s books. Oh, probably not all of them, Wesley said. Huh? Why not? She’s pro...
Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday.
Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.
Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.
Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always wor...
Maybe, in the end it's the voice that tells the stories more than the stories themselves that matters.
McVries seemed not to have heard. These things, they don't even bear the weight of conversation, he said, J.D. Salinger...John Knowles...even James Kirkwood and that guy Don Bredes...they've destroyed...
Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vulnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kic...
My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.
No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
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