Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. Votes: 0
Our lives teach us who we are. Votes: 0
I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about. Votes: 0
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. Votes: 0
Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail. Votes: 0
Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!' Votes: 0
India is my kid sister. Votes: 0
I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing. Votes: 0
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. Votes: 0
Free speech is life itself. Votes: 0
One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk. Votes: 0
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish ... to do otherwise is to legitimize it. Votes: 0
Good advice is rarer than rubies. Votes: 0
Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too. Votes: 0
A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape. Votes: 0
From birds she learned how to sing; from cats she learned a form of dangerous independence. Votes: 0
The world is a very abnormal place. Votes: 0
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. Votes: 0
If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today. Votes: 0
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff. Votes: 0
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work. Votes: 0
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. Votes: 0
A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality. Votes: 0
A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can. Votes: 0
All names mean something. Votes: 0
Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air? Votes: 0
Cruelty is not a literary value. Votes: 0
Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere? Votes: 0
Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series. Votes: 0
faith without doubt is addiction Votes: 0
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real. Votes: 0
Hell is other people's fantasies... Votes: 0
History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor. Votes: 0
I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father. Votes: 0
I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything. Votes: 0
I grew up kissing books and bread. Votes: 0
I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict. Votes: 0
I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time. Votes: 0
If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too. Votes: 0
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. Votes: 0
I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me. Votes: 0
I'm definitely post-something. Votes: 0
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions. Votes: 0
Is birth always a fall? Votes: 0
Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up. Votes: 0
Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought. Votes: 0
optimism is a disease Votes: 0
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes. Votes: 0
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete. Votes: 0
Realism can break a writer's heart. Votes: 0
Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture. Votes: 0
Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools. Votes: 0
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame. Votes: 0
The problem's name is God. Votes: 0
Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones. Votes: 0
We all owe death a life. Votes: 0
We are the storytelling animal. Votes: 0
What can't be cured must be endured. Votes: 0
When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for. Votes: 0
Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was? Votes: 0
With death comes honesty. Votes: 0