You’ve got the wrong girl.””On the contrary…” the voice murmured, “I’ve got exactly the girl I want.” Her body turned to ice. Her mind fought for calm. There were people only yards away, yet she...

Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be

Say whatever you want to. Just because I said it, you don’t have to.”He was right; I didn’t have to. He wasn’t asking anything of me.

Reality is such a pain. Those of us who were fed up with that kind of reality decided to remake it. We’d set up a partition, separate what’s important to us from what was trash,...

The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris (this was after Paris) and she had superb taste. (This was after taste too, but only just. And since it...

I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren’t any.

Beckon The Sea,I’ll Come To The….Shed Seven Tears, Perchance Seven Years….

They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in...

Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country – a very different world – and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it...

I’d prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt.” (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)

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.

FUTURE GONE”: “…I wonder what actually this hospital is, why I am in it and who I am. I have no time to find out. I die, with my arms stretched towards the spotlights.Then whiteness.My...

Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience.

The real Julian Wells didn’t die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.

Such a distant, forgotten thing, this Light.

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.

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...