Cosmic ray is the worst name. Because people think it’s something out of science fiction.

We are all of the same substance, the same life. Though there are many differences between us, those are merely the shadows that delineate our boundaries. Our light is the same.

When you turn around, you’ll see something I bet you’ve never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you’ll fit in nicely. If you don’t feel anything, then maybe you don’t belong here.

I am not as valuable as the books, I AM the books! They are a part of me I cannot delete or cut off or ignore! I AM CURRENCY! – Nevel Walker

Which one is more true — unity in diversity of culture or diversity in unity of religion!

The art of fiction has not changed much since prehistoric times. The formula for telling a powerful story has remained the same: create a strong character, a person of great strengths, capable of deep emotions...

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower – Stieg Larsson’s the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

It’s easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

The costumes help. They make it less real, disguise what it really is both for the actors and for the people who’ll see it on the screen. It’s like the people who read Anna Karenina,...

How can you be so sinfully beautiful Mrs. Norman?

She doesn’t seem to like me very much. Why is she here?” I wondered about thetesting Uncle Sean spoke of, but I was more concerned with the lethal blonde whoseemed to have taken an instant...

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we’ve arrived at.

Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day.

Gina was beautiful like a sunset. You see it and you think of how beautiful it is, and then it’s over and you move on. But Trista was beautiful like a song. The kind of...

There is nothing so sexy as a good-looking man in a good-looking pair of shorts.

The time of my departure is here. Place your hand gently on the soil beside my own, and feel the rumble of the earth beneath. The power of a thousand thousands is coming… evil warriors...

There’s an immense dramatic possibility in describing that universe. The books, for me, were an enormous relief in that sense of how they were written to allow primary emotion, elemental emotion, to matter enormously but...

Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that’s better than the real one.

The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor had they been since he had made the error of...

Animals do not respect their master’s brother, but they do respect their brothers as masters.

Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt like the sun was shining from his heart.” – from the novel Brainjob...

No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking for a doctor. You don’t want the new one that just graduated. You don’t want the very old one, the one...

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise,...

I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it’s all the same genre.

Let us be vulgar and have some fun, let us invite the President.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Every time I had things straight in my head abouthim, I saw him smile or crook an eyebrow, and all my sensible reasons on why I couldn’t have feelings for him seemed redundant.

Perhaps our suffering is part of our humanity.

So not cool,” from the bastard as he fell…fell…Splat.

The defenders retreated, but in good order. A musket flamed and a ball shattered a marine’s collar bone, spinning him around. The soldiers screamed terrible battle-cries as they began their grim job of clearing the...

The gossip will kill your Great Grandmother.

My mom will descend upon me with a bottle ofperoxide the second I hit the door.

¡Dios bendiga los tiempos antiguos, en que existían cosas raras…!

I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters that are contained therein. They are counting on me as much as I...

We work all our lives to be who we become. And, it’s who we become that determines what becomes of us.

For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle…. A page of good prose seems to me the...

I have placed my faith in humanity, but faith in the universal becomes meaningless without faith in the individual. – Panchali Draupadi

You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don’t fall for their promises.

Only hurts when I breathe or blink or exist, if I’m being honest.

It took me several minutes to persuade myself to watch the news. During which time I gave myself a stern talking to. That turned into me considering a local pub that would be the perfect...

Good fantasy fiction: … explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters’ individual experiences to speak personally to us all.

Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality of mankind is no fiction as it is in Christianity. No human mind...

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern patterns and meanings within them. Stories of all sorts form and shape the...

His only real financial failure came at the age of thirteen when, in an uncharacteristic error of judgement, he invested £200,000 of his own savings in wooden socks, an invention that never caught on as...

I had a lump in my throat the size of a bundt cake pan.

I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you.

The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it’s about and why...

Yes, later.” With that, I waved the team forward.

Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?”For fun?”Fun!’ He pounced on the word. ‘Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.