A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement

It takes skill to win a battle, but brains to win a war.

Love is not a forest fire that burns intensely,hotly and out of control for a brief moment until,its expendable fuel spent,it sputters,seeking in vain for something else to consume,to sustain itself before, finally,it dies:cold, black...

The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.

Everyone makes mistakes, but only a few could forgive. Padahal ada banyak kesalahan yang hanya perlu dimaafkan, bukan dihukum. An eye for an eye will make us all blind.

A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything that man can become, everything he’s capable of. Novelists draw up the map...

«Je m’appelle Paloma, j’ai douze ans, j’habite au 7 rue de Grenelle dans un appartement de riches. Mais malgré toute cette chance et toute cette richesse, depuis très longtemps, je sais que la destination finale,...

If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History...

For the girl without words, there is laughter for what is light, gesture for want, and tears for all that is dark. There is not much more. Names are nothing but extravagance.

Rencana Allah selalu indah…

I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.

More like an offer I’m hoping you can’t refuse.

La gente no acepta que se le diga sus verdades. Quieren que se crea sus lindas palabras o por lo menos que uno haga como si. Yo soy lúcida soy franca arranco las caretas. La...

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

I guess it’s true: it’s difficult for men to understand women.

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.

Prima nuntă. Primul vis împlinit. Iar ea, mireasa, parcă plutea pe-un nor, fiind toată numai z mbete. Era, cu-adevărat, cea mai frumoasă zi din viaţa ei!

Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining?

Some stories aren’t black and white…

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

El problema es que los humanos tienen el don de elegir precisamente las cosas que son peores para ellos.

Wow, you are super drunk.

I went on steadily trying to ‘find out how to’; but I wrote two or three novels without feeling that I had made much progress. It was not until I wrote “Ethan Frome” that I...

No pretendo que consientas mis palabras, de ser así, las escribiría de manera que pudieras comprenderlas.Sólo espero que las conserves, y las mantengas a la mano, o frescas en tu memoria, para que el día...

Laf aramızda, sen neden sinir krizi geçiriyorsun acaba? yani, bütün gücün kuvvetinle çöküntüye uğrayabiliyorsan eğer, neden aynı enerjiyi sapasağlam ayakta kalmak için harcamıyorsun?

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

My Friends I Will Always Remember, And My Enemies I Will Never Forget!

That’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking, what’s your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to?

A normal life? Now that’s the real fairytale.” From UNDER MY SKIN

How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life.

Merdeka!’ the Malay man screamed.’Merdekaaaaaa!’ the sea of people echoed.

Writing a novel is easy… writing checks is hard.

I turned to her, my whole body hard with tiredness and regret.

Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will...

Your heart is yours to give, it is no ones to take. Not a queen. Not a prince. No one.

That’s where they found the skeletons. Right where you’re standing.

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infection, a sickening of matter? Was that which one might call the original procreation of matter only a disease, a growth produced by morbid stimulation of...

I don’t want what we’re doing to just end up as notes for a novel.

Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.

War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.

Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?

Seperti sungai yg mendamba lautan. Ujungnya, hanya tinggal aku, tenggelam dalam kesedihan

I love the novel because it’s like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it’s going to take you.

A novel is just a story that hasn’t yet discovered a way to be brief.

Beginikah rasanya saat benar-benar bahagia?

We were afraid of so many things: Of our children, who lived in their own world of casually lurid pleasures, zombies and cartoon killers and thuggish music. Of our neighbors, who were buying gold and...

Wow, what a horror novel

The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter’s place in Vermont. On Christmas Eve, as indifferent evening took hold in the blue squares of the windows, he...

It was a vision of the one thing that we both hoped someday would be…the warmth of our bodies next to each other’s, reflected in sunset of our secret place… We longed for it to...