The morning was brisk and the coffee was hot and roasted with little gurgles in the room. Rosie hadn’t moved, but she let out a tiny snore every now and again that made everything perfect.

Mistakes? That’s why they put erasers on pencils.

messiah” from his mission. If the Ballister acquisition was Norm’s cross, as everyone seems to think it was, then it was Norm who chose to bear that cross. And pride that nailed him to it.

Don’t push me, I’m hormonal.”I’m not really a lousy detective, just rough around the edges.

Entering the foyer, Royale already decided that he would thank Shake once more for being by his side at Keena’s recital. But she stunned him by eagerly waiting for him just like old times—on her...

The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed

Fiction is just that–fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It’s entertainment. It’s escapism. It’s 365 pages of relaxation.

That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.

If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

[Nathan] wasn’t blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn’t crazy. He was a hero–a father who’d risked his life to rescue his son.

A good book isn’t written, it’s rewritten.

A tightrope walker uncertain if he could make it to the other side probably would not. A race car driver wondering if he was taking a turn too fast was likely to lose control. If...

I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it’s already written.

Halfway to the house Stan stopped and turned to Jane. He put his hands on her shoulders and drew her toward him.”I’m glad we’re going steady,” he whispered.”So am I.”In spite of the reassuring weight...

For a long time, Maurice rubbed his shaved head in his palm, until at last he looked up at his student. “Teo, I think you have to let Deu be the God he is, not...

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

He had a bad habit of initially zeroing in on one or two things he liked about every new girl he found himself interested in, as if to justify his attraction.

There’s no such thing as fiction”, Annie told him once. “If you can imagine something, then it’s happened.

In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be...

Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.

I wasn’t writing home. I wasn’t writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant for my family and my fiancee, Sara.

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.

I’ve learned that the most unbelievable is the most believable.

The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened...

As a man, I instantly became aware of the gold in her hair, her height measured against mine, and how easily she’d fit in my arms. ~Ren

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge...

After a moment, Wrath turned to John. “This is Lassiter, the fallen angel. One of the last times he was here on earth, there was a plague in central Europe-“”Okay, that was so not my...

There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery – Cassel Sharpe

A true leader is not meant to be greeted with unanimous praise by his people. A leader is meant to be questioned, to be suspect, to be hated. If he is not, then one can...

Tell me your Dreams and I’ll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I’ll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you can get lost in!

Life is the courier of the universal brilliance.” Elysse

What we do in life echoes in eternity.

No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands… that can do your brain.

There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the “meaning” of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to insist on meanings, and they are rarely even looked for now, except in...

I am a fact factory. I make things you can’t make up.

As the sun went down outside, the television screen started completely lighting up the room in obnoxiously bright colors at hyperactive speeds. The conversation had been slowly rising in volume and frequency, as everyone started...

The fictitious kleptomaniac’s only crime was stealing imaginations

If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything. Be friendly and then go doyour best. That will make you...

My breath is halted, like grasping for air after crying far too long and hard. It is like a hiccup, with a shivering sharpness of nerves. It is like icicles running down your spine or...

it’s not about what to think,it’s about how to think.

there were worse things than feeling guilty, like feeling dead.

One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture; A pale blue eye with a film over it.

Once I was King of the Titans. Now I need a MedicAlert bracelet and a subscription to the Safe Return program. Can you put out a Silver Alert on a god? I’ve fallen and I...

turn of the page,” I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else’s story. And I believe that this terror is precisely what must have snagged me, the way a ledge...

Peace is one thing, revolution is another. You were either impatient or highly optimistic to think one would lead to the other. – Panchali Draupadi.

There was no control except the “mood of his power… and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him play someplace where the weather for instance could change the next series...

She smoothes the front of the dress, looking down at her hands, at her bitten fingernails, at her big feet in the pointy-toes shoes. This is a woman’s dress, she thinks, a young woman’s dress....

He’ll probably be a bit Looneyville for a while.