It’s always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It’s more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the world,and the origin of all life.

I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished for… And I woke up!

My cat mocks me frequently. It’s the universe’s way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

Valerik spit to one side. “We laugh at religion’s brand of love, forms and rules that keep the poor feeding from the church’s coffers. It is in deed.” “I agree. That kind of love is...

Writing keeps me sane.

His smile is beautiful. It’s the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter how big. I have no choice but to smile back.

…and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or twice but all night.

The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the...

When reading dies, the imagination soon follows.

That’s why literature is so fascinating. It’s always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It’s never the same thing twice.

One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica)

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.

If a woman were elected president, would our nation expect her husband to be the official White House host?

It was just a word. It took nothing from him. It made him feel only as low as he allowed himself to feel. His own brother used it in conversation habitually. But not in the...

life is not about being fearless its about controlling your fears

When it comes to who will like your writing; the ones who will like it will like it because they can relate to the story or can find a piece of their own story hidden...

There are two ways to ruin any chances of leading a happy life. The first is to chase a goal twenty-four hours a day, day after day, and gladly give up all the little laughs...

You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.

It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage the earth.

Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles. Worldbuilding works best...

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that’s appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.

Perfect love, like perfect partner does not exist. We create our own perfect love. If you care to know, a a good partner is like a construction engineer. To build the kind of house he...

Reading takes the reader to faraway lands, new cultures, new and exciting adventures; you meet new friends and enemies; it takes the reader from the heights of the imagination to the depths of human emotions;...

Not everyone can be rich,’ Peter went on. ‘Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave! If we tell ourselves we can do it; if...

Dead. Supposedly Suicide. That’s how they’ll kill Michael too. Make it look like a suicide or an accident of some sort.

It’s only artists who know how to use their eyes

She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey.

Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people’s hearts as well as engaging their minds.

Raven?’Yes?’What do you believe in?’I believe in – finding out!

Live in your dreams, not your past.

Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened...

… Shannon’s fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself, Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool.

Growing up, Renaldo and his father had a great relationship. At least until his father went and slept with someone else.

I feel ill,” [Howl] announced. “I’m going to bed, where I may die.

They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest part of a heartbeat, when all Catelyn saw was the moonlight on the...

The Temptations of St. Anthony,” by Donald Barthelme

My love grows long, and my smile is wide. My gaze is deep, and my penchant for making up words is apopleggio.

She opened her eyes and looked into his rather intensely. “What?” Alex asked. “This cannot be.” “What can’t be?” Alex asked her, more bafflement in his voice this time. “I have been reading people all...

Please don’t forget me, don’t let me fade away… I was here, I lived, and I loved…

It’s okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that’s what makes you special. Oh, and watch out if a dragon ever starts...

A couple hours went by, and the storm began to turn back to the sea. The dark clouds rolled away, leaving white, fluffy ones in their place. We were safe, and the rock in the...

Life is something that no one can teach you,You have to learn it.

What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as...

I started to drink heavily, comfortably caught in the tentacle-like clutches of alcohol.

At my age, every day that I overcome simple inertia is a victory.

at least they wouldn’t be our same old problems… ” (22)

Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings, God bless them, may feel every impulse to condole and console, but their...