Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Votes: 33
This is not a bad life. Votes: 8
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. Votes: 5
The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic." Votes: 0
The only mortal sin is giving up." Votes: 0
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different. Votes: 0
If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die. Votes: 0
You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast. Votes: 0
Money talks, bullshit walks. Votes: 0
Get busy living, or get busy dying. Votes: 0
The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty. Votes: 0
And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back? Votes: 0
There will be water if God wills it. Votes: 0
Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path. Votes: 0
Time's the thief of memory Votes: 0
No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves. Votes: 0
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. Votes: 0
Time heals all wounds. Votes: 0
I am your number one fan. Votes: 0
God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny? Votes: 0
There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. Votes: 0
Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous. Votes: 0
Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us. Votes: 0
Books are a uniquely portable magic. Votes: 0
Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious. Votes: 0
Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act. Votes: 0
...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win Votes: 0
A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures. Votes: 0
A broken spoon may become a fork. Votes: 0
A person can't change all at once. Votes: 0
Words have weight. Votes: 0
A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for too long, not until he's seasoned. Votes: 0
Thanks to you guys and girls who read my stuff, too. May you have long days and pleasant nights. Votes: 0
What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be Votes: 0
Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them. Votes: 0
I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe. Votes: 0
You can't polish a turd. Votes: 0
Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in. Votes: 0
I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line. Votes: 0
A change is as good as a rest. Votes: 0
A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes. Votes: 0
Above all else, be consistent. Votes: 0
Adults are the real monsters. Votes: 0
All Thing Serve the Beam Votes: 0
American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm. Votes: 0
And then the world exploded. Votes: 0
Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either. Votes: 0
Art should be a place of hope. Votes: 0
But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more. Votes: 0
City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself. Votes: 0
Cold start is a hard start. Votes: 0
Death is when the monsters get you. Votes: 0
Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live. Votes: 0
Doubters will doubt to the end. Votes: 0
Dreams age faster than dreamers. Votes: 0
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. Votes: 0
Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time. Votes: 0
Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God. Votes: 0
Explanations are such cheap poetry. Votes: 0
Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve. Votes: 0
He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge. Votes: 0
He killed them with their love Votes: 0
He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot. Votes: 0
I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of. Votes: 0
I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner. Votes: 0
I can see your dirtypillows. Votes: 0
I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring. Votes: 0
I just saw myself as a novelist. Votes: 0
I tend to scare myself. Votes: 0
I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it. Votes: 0
I work until beer o'clock. Votes: 0
I write to find out what I think. Votes: 0
If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb. Votes: 0
If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness. Votes: 0
If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it? Votes: 0
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. Votes: 0
If you want to play, you gotta pay. Votes: 0
I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are. Votes: 0
In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves. Votes: 0
In these silences something may rise Votes: 0
It is the tale, not he who tells it. Votes: 0
It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters. Votes: 0
It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again. Votes: 0
I've put men to death-men with supposedly immortal souls-that looked dumber than that mouse Votes: 0
Ka works and the world moves on. Votes: 0
Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar. Votes: 0
Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. Votes: 0
Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started. Votes: 0
Life turns on a dime. Votes: 0
Long days and pleasant nights Votes: 0
Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all. Votes: 0
Madness is a kind of mental suicide. Votes: 0
Make-up covers a multitude of sins. Votes: 0
Mister, we deal in lead. Votes: 0
Money can't buy off the lightning. Votes: 0
Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters. Votes: 0
My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people. Votes: 0
no knowledge obtained without risk Votes: 0
Nobody likes a clown at midnight Votes: 0
Nora Roberts is cool. Votes: 0
On the subject of love at first sight, I'm with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time. Votes: 0
Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please. Votes: 0
Pain is the biggest power of love. Votes: 0
Pray for rain while digging a well. Votes: 0
Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split. Votes: 0
Sometimes dead is better Votes: 0
Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up. Votes: 0
Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt. Votes: 0
Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking. Votes: 0
The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around. Votes: 0
The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day. Votes: 0
The devil's voice is sweet to hear. Votes: 0
The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside. Votes: 0
The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution. Votes: 0
The monster nevers dies. Votes: 0
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own. Votes: 0
The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor. Votes: 0
The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon. Votes: 0
the only mortal sin is giving up. Votes: 0
The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God. Votes: 0
The past is obdurate. Votes: 0
The truth is in the details. Votes: 0
The turtle couldn't help us. Votes: 0
The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever. Votes: 0
The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's. Votes: 0
There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time. Votes: 0
There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world. Votes: 0
They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much Votes: 0
This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change. Votes: 0
Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief's sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced. Votes: 0
Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic. Votes: 0
Time is a face on the water. Votes: 0
Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow. Votes: 0
To the devil with false modesty. Votes: 0
True love always happens in a flash. Votes: 0
True sorrow is as rare as true love. Votes: 0
Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy. Votes: 0
We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do. Votes: 0
We all float down here! Votes: 0
We're news junkies in my house. Votes: 0
What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane. Votes: 0
When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside. Votes: 0
Writing is seduction. Votes: 0
Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy. Votes: 0
You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered. Votes: 0
You say true, I say thankya. Votes: 0
Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other. Votes: 0
Zombies are the new vampire. Votes: 0