Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.
When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, One word at a time.
Home is where they want you to stay longer
By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.
The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriousl...
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.
It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You'.
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...
Here's what vampires shouldn't be: pallid detectives that drink Bloody Marys and work only at night; lovelorn southern gentlemen; anorexic teenage girls; boy-toys with big dewy eyes. What should they...
Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes.It falls upon her.Love is like dying.
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Lover, she whispers, and closes her eyes.
Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.
But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.
A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows
when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there was no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mys...
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.