top of page
.png){kind=small}
"There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years."
Standard
Customized
More
"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Expectations create and shape reality."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Expectation creates the reality."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Weren't you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside yougoing and coming and often staying all night.)"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction."
Life
"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."
People
"I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for."
Experience
"It's a long story. I'll make it short as I can."
Brevity
"So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter."
Environment
"It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate."
Fate
"Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much more a pedant than his older counterpart. And I, being young myself, took these pronouncements of Henry's very seriously. I doubt if Milton himself could have impressed me more."
Youth
"Real age, as I came to see from the genuine pieces that passed through my hands, was variable, crooked, capricious, singing here and sullen there, warm asymmetrical streaks on a rosewood cabinet from where a slant of sun had struck it while the other side was as dark as the day it was cut."
Time
"What's worth living for? what's worth dying for? what's completely foolish to pursue?"
Meaning
"The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences."
Creativity
bottom of page