It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience…For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant act. Because there are so many varieties of human experience, so...

In the temple, I sit on the cool floor next to Grandfather, beneath the stern benevolence of the goddess’s glance. Grandfather is clad in only a traditional silk dhoti–no fancy modern clothes for him. That’s...

Piensa en mí como quien camina en una noche bajo la lluvia, con unaexpresión lúgubre, con las manos manchadas de sangre, sosteniendouna fotografía de las dos personas que murieron por mi causa, unamanzana que representa...

When you’re younger you’re so happy to get some good loving you convince yourself you’re in love, can’t live with out it, and chase the dick like a crack addict after the pipe, or chase...

Just do it. Now.

Strange looks everything for a stranger!

When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The...

To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck “Slackeye” Roberts

You two are bound to one another. You always have been … and you can’t run away from what you are. No matter where you go, your feelings for her are going to follow you.

The sweet-smelling aroma of the island spices still hung in the air. It filled his nostrils and titillated his appetite all over again. His appetite drove him mad for something much more than food.

Tine-ma aici cat vrei,si cand nu ma mai vrei,spune-mi sa ma duc

She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.

For a whole new night.

You know what feels really fucking awesome? Loving someone so much that it’s all consuming. Telling that person you love them, even though they refuse to say it back. And then finally hearing them say...

When I put together a graphic novel, I don’t think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

Life is full of beautiful moments. Live your life to the fullest. And do what youlove.

The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don’t make a fuss – you can ‘beat it’ and there’s never enough. At least in my opinion...

There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form –...

Really, Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy… Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that dis-empowers them or one that...

Do we really mean it when we say ‘in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, until death do us part or do we add a silent clause, ‘unless you shame me or...

Si tuvieras que elegir entre la cordura, tu vida tal como la recuerdas, antes que la verdadera inestabilidad, ,qué elegirías como manera adecuada para vivir de un estudioso?

Perasaan bukan mainan, juga bukan kertas yang mudah dikoyak, diremuk sesuka hati…

Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.

Aku ingin melihatmu tertawa dan bahagia karenaku.

You can’t really succeed with a novel anyway; they’re too big. It’s like city planning. You can’t plan a perfect city because there’s too much going on that you can’t take into account. You can,...

One’s options in this world are as vast as the horizon, which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, for the footprints we...

Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt that the realization of his longing gave him only one grain of the...

The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.

Don’t you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?” he said.

Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but...

The novel cannot submit to authority.

I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way.

Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.

Whatever is scaring you, bring it into the light. It’s strength will fade

I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished for… And I woke up!

This place is alive,” Sunni said in wonder. “Things are moving. Inside a painting.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.

It was just a word. It took nothing from him. It made him feel only as low as he allowed himself to feel. His own brother used it in conversation habitually. But not in the...

People snare when I tell them that I’m an emotional prostitute. But after my rebuttal, they begin to realize that they are one too. Like me, they have pimped their emotions for the affections of...

Stunning is the fact that a novel idea proposed by a person ordinary is initially not liked often by his or her friends any, but suddenly many of them like if the same or similar...

Ama Kardinal Hazretleri, izin verirseniz söyleyeyim. Biz, öteki ressamlar ellerimizle konuşuruz…- Olmadı, diyerek araya girdi yeniden Arezzo Piskoposu, kafayla konuşuyorsunuz… Algı yoksa, düşünce de yoktur, görüntü de yok. Hatta aynı şekilde, şiir, konuşan resimdir… Resimse,...

You really thought I would give up that easy? I am a geek, Cassie, not a friggin’ wimp. It’s called the internet and how to videos.

For a moment he came near to sharing their incredible belief—it would do no harm to mutter a prayer of thanks to the God of his childhood, the God of the Common and the castle,...

Con Irene bisognava diluire. In un litro di silenzio le sue pretese si disperdevano lente, giorno dopo giorno, goccia dopo goccia. La rabbia lasciava spazio a nuove apprensioni che stendevano ligie il tappeto della riconciliazione,...

Look, I went to a lot of trouble to come here and try to help you. I’m in more trouble than I can guess, but if you don’t want my help… maybe I should have...

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

Luka itu akan semakin membaik seiring dengan berjalannya waktu. Seiring memudarnya aku di hatimu.

It was past midnight. From the carpark of the apartment blocks, a human figure with an unsteady gait emerged.

I have a question for you. When you were a little boy, is this the man you dreamed of becoming?

I could not have asked for a better friends or a better life, but there’s a nasty trick about living. It happens at its own pace and in its own way and you never, never...