The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
And in more than half the pictures, she isn't looking at the camera; she's looking at him. Not the way I would… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way.… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Afterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing.' I think she took some comfort in… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Don't you get it yet? The minute we decide that one person doesn't matter anymore, they've won."..."Beneath a sky crowded with a billion stars.… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown up in… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“I can’t leave him. I made a promise.” I start to explain it, but I don’t even know how to begin. How do I… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“That's my big problem. That's it! Before the Arrival,guys like Evan Walker never looked twice at me, much less shot wild game for me… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I'm one, too," he said. "What?" He spit a wad of blood and mucus into the dirt. "A virgin." What a shock. "What makes… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“He drops into the room, landing on the balls of his feet like a cat. I'm in his arms in the time it takes… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“All things do happen for a reason... . Is this not the foundation of our faith? You are here-all of us-because we are but… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Her raised his face to the weeping sky, closed his dark eyes, and sighed deeply, a smile playing on his sensuous lips. "The bloody… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
