Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can’t.

I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.

You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.

Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means an invisible man. He was ubiquitous and palpable, both in a physical and...

The farther away, the closer the home becomes.

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; When everything is silent and perfect, There is just perfection and nothing To fill the air.

Books hold no passports. There’s only one true literary tradition: the human.

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

Perhaps forgiveness wasn’t a singular event, but a progression, or better, a dance that took some figuring before you could perform the steps.

When lion saddled for hunt, he outfitted by bow and arrow to guard himself

Kill me, or you are a murderer.

So, fuck ’em, we say. Fuck the mundane of Mainstream, the elitists of Literature. We’re GENRE FICTION and proud of it, proud to wear that brand painted on the backs of our biker’s jackets.

Literature is my Utopia

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice… and just as the touch of a button on our set will...

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

I just can’t get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people get rewarded and the bad people get punished, essentially what they...

Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end?” In ancient times a story could end only in two ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married,...

Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not “publishing’s” –

We all come out from Gogol’s ‘Overcoat’.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it

All I wanted was to be loved for myself.” (Erik)

literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.

Propping up a seat at the bar we devour chicken wings like life does dreams

I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as ‘flesh and blood’....

Does such a thing as “the fatal flaw,” that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

But when the wizard is onstage as the main character, you have to adopt what I call the Jack Vance Rule. I call it this because Jack Vance is the first author successfully and adroitly...

A month later the law student leaves you for one of her classmates, tells you that it was great but she has to start being realistic. . . . .Later you see her with said...

La pluma es la lengua del alma: cuales fueren los conceptos que en ella se engendraren, tales serán sus escritos.

So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I’d read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn’t finish one without being in the middle of another — anything to...

A child’s imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.

The growth of the imagination demands windows-windows through which we can look out at the world and windows through which we can look into ourselves. The old stories were windows in just this way.

As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known how to enter, its role in our...

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.

When you’re used to being in dangerous situations, you develop a sixth sense about your surroundings, about where possible enemies might be lurking, how many steps it will take to reach the next corner on...

As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience....

The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures — I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real...

Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection. He lay...

A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[…].

If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.

Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty

Artaud decía que escribir era una marranada, que todos los escritores eran unos cerdos, sobre todo los de ahora. Lo suscribo. Sin embargo, pese a todo, continúo admirando a los jóvenes escritores. De la misma...

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.