“Hi!' The chirpy little voice greeted me with such energised enthusiasm it made me jump nearly a foot out of my seat.… — Tom Clempson Copy Share Image
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
“The dressmakers have just arrived from Shylon; they are coming here to display their goods.’ ‘Really, that’s lovely.’ ‘I was wondering if… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
“Along with every other male of his acquaintance he loathed the Naked Chef with messianic passion and prayed for the day he… — Wendy Holden Copy Share Image
“The Chancellor looked down at the paper in front of him. He cleared his throat. 'Re'lar Ambrose, are you a donkey?' Ambrose… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“If it had been my decision, you would still be sleeping, and I would be hoping every hour of every night you… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“Dr. Jules Hilbert: Hell Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted. Harold Crick: What is wrong with you?… — Zach Helm Copy Share Image
“Sometime later the islanders on a little rimward atoll were amazed to find, washed into their little local lagoon, the wave-rocked corpse… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Let me go!" She tore off a mirror and brandished it in his face. "I mean it! I don't want to go… — Gina Damico Copy Share Image
“A man of the mouth, formerly the most oral of surgeons, Henry had the habit of giving his lady patients laughing gas,… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“Just because you disagreed with the Poll Tax and detested Margaret Thatcher—" "Detest is a little inappropriate," Parlabane said. "Maybe closer to… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“...his knees were held together by the skin-tight trousers, which consequently narrowed the aperture through which great quantities of malodorous, rancid dreck… — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
“Yer a dead man!" Davy shouts, going in a full circle with the horse jumping and rearing. "Yer half right," I say.” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“He was sure people detested accountants; they were boring. In fact, he had put down his profession as an airline pilot on… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“How fast you go. You arrive at a conclusion much sooner than I would permit myself to do.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.” — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
“This was how I would die. Strangled by an attractive, seminaked woman inside a fridge with a giant tarantula in the middle… — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
