This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.

Focus. She’s Maddie. Your friend. Would you eyeball Keith or Dane’s butt like that? ~ Zach

I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind to sober pasture, just as it had for Saint Augustine. I...

It’s always nice to learn a thing or two from a novel, don’t you think?

Love is something that is beyond us. We can’t anticipate love. When, where and with whom we fall in love is coincidental and wonderful for the same reason.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it’s yours.

Aku Tidak mau menjadi RELAWAN, Tapi seorang PAHLAWAN!Relawan menolong kapanpun dan dimanapun, Tapi aku hanya akan menolong di SAAT yang TEPAT!

To be honest with you, I don’t have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk...

If we’re open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives… to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast,...

When you care for someone, you don’t ruin their life!

Apa kamu lupa cara merinduku? Atau sebenarnya memang tidak pernah?

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

I’ve been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

Melupakan berarti berusaha menghapus kenangan, sedangkan merelakan berarti belajar melepaskan.

Looking at the stars is a glimpse of history. Some of the things we see are millions of light-years away. Everything in the universe has a past but stars don’t try to hide it. They...

¡Dios bendiga los tiempos antiguos, en que existían cosas raras…!

My Name Is Latif Mercado, And I Am… A Workaholic!

A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.

I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.

Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity because it’s the path of least resistance for our souls – an energy...

…and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant’s Woman

The average author hawks their books at many events. They are vigilant promoters, waiting for a breakthrough. They do this, or else watch their novel wither away.

On my website there’s a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: “The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world...

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line

Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

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...

Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it, like clouds across the sky?

Los siglos pasados tuvieron y siguen teniendo sus propios poderes que el “modernismo” no puede suprimir.

Haksızlık, ihanet, utanç… Artemisia bunları hiç yorulmadan renklere döküyordu. Esin kaynaklarını tarihteki büyük kadınların gururlu mücadelesinde derinleştiriyordu. Yalana karşı koyan, İncil’deki kadın kahramanlar. Zorbalığa başkaldıran, efsaneleşmiş çehreler… Judith tuvallerinde, baştan çıkardığı despot kralı öldürerek halkını...

With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the...

The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.

Succede, a volte, di provare una grande attrazione per qualcuno che poco ha a che fare con i nostri valori, le nostre abitudini, le nostre passioni. Che sia chimica, follia, istinto animale poco importa. Ciò...

You’ll be civilized or we’ll leave your arse here.” Johan… “Vital Perception

…Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times… …Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on… Quote on the Title Page of “Love TORN Asunder

Bukankah aku pernah bilang padamu? Lebih baik aku kehilangan segalanya daripada harus kehilangan dirimu.

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...

Funny how much we all suffer trying to spare others a bit of pain.

Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart.

Here’s the truth: I am the female version of a heartbreaker. The one that everyone says is too dedicated to ballet, too self-involved to ever care about anyone else besides herself. I’m the rebel. The...

An author is similar to an actor. They play many characters in their lives—photographer, nurse, dancer, doctor, writer, etc. As an author, you have to learn your craft, know each and every element to become...

Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain – some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then...

There’s no better way for a woman to punish a man than to make him sleep away from her.

‘Eighth one this week,’ he said.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!… except of course when they are alone.

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: “What if?” and “What next?” (A third question, “What now?”, is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it’s more a cry than...

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don’t know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn’t be worth reading.