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- Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
- Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.
- Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
- Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?
- How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of…
- the only mortal sin is giving up.
- Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who…
- High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was…
- It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died…
- Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.
- The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head…
- Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
- Make-up covers a multitude of sins.
- How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much…
- Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust...
- God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f***…
- Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
- Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up…
- Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still…
- As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill…
- Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.
- I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to…
- A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair.…
- Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story…
- Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong