top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Author
"One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory.You must remember this."
57
"An array of behavioral decision options establishes opportunities for personal growth. The knowledgeable choices that a person makes in a constantly varying physical setting and capricious social milieu reflect their character, and their evolving personality continues to affect their social and intellectual growth."
57
"I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything."
57
"Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it."
57
"There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and accept you. The other is as though loving and accepting another person is all that matters. Often, when you choose the second you get the first."
57
"Sometimes I stare into a pool of piss, I see my reflection, I picture a hole in my face, there's nothing there, it's vanished. I watch the maggots turn to flies, and they fly off with bits of flesh from my body. I attempt to wipe it clear from my mind, but the nice thoughts get swallowed up. I can't think nice for too long-it would destroy me."
57
"Faith and hope remove worry, anxiety, and fear. Human life becomes very painful and burdensome if a person has no one to trust and love. Then why should it bother an atheist, if a mother who just has lost her child, takes up a doll of baby Jesus or Krishna and pampers it like her own child, while in the process she actually succeeds in coping with her traumatic situation!"
57
"Skills or professionalism is another factor of growth."
57
"The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect."
57
"The bond of love between wonderful souls is divine."
57
"Appreciate and find ways to invest in yourself."
57
"A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so."
56
"Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human."
56
"When you're in hell, you forget how great you really are because you're suffering and you forget the great things you've done."
56
"Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal."
56
"Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours."
56
"The singular reason for calamities, destructions, failures and devastations is seen in ignorance of Gods people."
56
"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
56
"Some people are boys longer than others."
56
"There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view."
56
"When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat."
56
"He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age."
56
"Identify the problem but never dwell on it. Focus on solutions."
56
"A positive anything however small is something towards your goal. It's better than nothing."
56
"Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever."
56
"Maybe the truth of it all is that we're just too fearful to give our faith enough running room to realize that this precariously thin path that led us to the end of this life is dwarfed to obscurity by the infinitely vast byway that begins immediately on the other side."
56
"Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers."
56
"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results."
56
"My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit."
56
"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."
56
bottom of page