No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one girl; one voice that speaks aloud and one that whispers in my ear;...

The right things often happen for the wrong reason.

El zekanın bir aletidir yalnızca. Zeka olmazsa hiçbir şey yapılmış olmaz.

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

I’ve learned that the most unbelievable is the most believable.

I had a dream about you. We were out to dinner at some place fancy, like the Library of Congress. I ate a thick, rare James Joyce novel, and you ate a pig that looked...

I thought I lost you again. You couldn’t know what those four years were like. To not know where you were, who you were with, or if you were being treated well? I wasn’t sure...

Truth is irrelevant; what matters is what people believe.

Bukankah sangat menyenangkan jika kau bisa menciptakan sebuah dunia dan mengajak orang lain untuk tinggal di dalamnya?

Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?

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

When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the poet’s company to be compelled to describe to him a poem he was thinking of....

I am the constellation of my own.

Many of us can’t go home again, whether home is Seville, Cabo Sur, Nastas, Havana, or Kansas City. Thus, we must recognize that home really lies in the eternal peace, dormant or conscious, that dwells...

Your passions don’t have to connect to one another and no one needs to sign off on them. Passion isn’t logical… it’s only the fuel which keeps our souls alive. Let it be that simple.

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.

During our time together in this place Holly didn’t outright avoid me or treat me rudely. But she wasn’t—how do women like to put it? She wasn’t emotionally available to me.

It’s not that we have to leave this life one day, it’s how many things we have to leave all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, wine, summertime, drunkenness, and the physics of falling leaves,...

Sebab bukan cinta namanya kalau hanya berdiam diri saja seperti padang pasir, atau menjelajahi dunia seperti angin. Bukan pula cinta namanya kalau hanya memandang segala sesuatu dari kejauhan,

It’s more like how some people can’t help but bring out the not necessarily righteous parts of your personality. Like how you meet someone and instantly know they’re a full-time professional victim, and no matter...

Durante tantos milenios como llevan existiendo, los humanos no han comprendido en realidad qué es el amor. ,Cuánto hay de físico y cuánto de mental en todo eso? ,Cuándo es accidente y cuándo destino? ,Por...

Samuel walked out to Lindsey then, and there she was in his arms, my sweet butterball babe, born ten years after my fourteen years on Earth: Abigail Suzanne. Little Susie to me. Samuel placed Susie...

Quote from “A la bulgaro”:”So long time has passed since those days, and since that story, which is still vivid in my memory, and even more vivid than all the rest. Some times I stay...

I can taste fear, and lies, on a man’s skin, Cavrax.” The Master Priest whispered, watching the large pulse on the cleric’s neck beat like a caged thing begging for release. “You’re lying to me.

The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous – no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas...

Death doesn’t always want your eternal sleep. Sometimes Death just wants your eternity.

Are you the right person?” Lachlan wondered, as he took a half step forward.Cormag took a deep breath and brushed at a strand of hair that was sticking out at a funny angle from behind...

It began with a perfect plan. Shape-wise we had a circle, a simple uncomplicated curve to guide us comfortably from one thing to another, an easy predictable ride promising a natural progression from A to...

sebuah wilayah di mana tak seorang pun memiliki kebenaran…tapi di mana setiap orang punya hak untuk dimengerti”(Caping 3, h. 151)

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it’s very rare that you’ll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.

But it was not only a feeling of guilt which drove him into danger. He detested the pettiness that made life semilife and men semimen. He wished to put his life on one of a...

Presently a soprano voice of richness and depth floated from the open windows of the parlor, resonating over the darkening greenery. All at once it was as if the entire scene before them was awakened...

Marcie was found in her apartment late last night uh… no longer alive.” My bedside manner has never been my strong suit.Dr. Taggart looked distressed and began to ramble incoherently for a minute. I let...

Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you’ve done or have fantasized about. love, deception, romance, fear, death, life, pain, & yes...

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, ‘Lucky Jim.’

I like to think she hates my guts a little less every hour.

For her and Nurul merely to share a meal cooked in their own kitchen was a triumph; to wake up together each morning a luxury.

You deserved it.

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often...

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.

Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

I love you more than depth of the ocean, but I can’t let you feel the pain of it…lines from Love Vs destiny….

From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight.

The monkey liked most humans. They left food cans outside their homes for his family to rummage through in the morningsun. Some yelled and threw sticks, but were slow and didn’t bite. Humans were mostly...