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Quotes by Novelist
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
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"Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man."
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"Chuck Norris doesn't need to understand the work of James Joyce; James Joyce needs to understand the work of Chuck Norris."
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"Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't."
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"Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories."
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"It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes."
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"Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world."
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"Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest."
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"It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow."
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"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me."
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"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."
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"People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question."
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"But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you."
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"If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't."
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"Again his memory failed to conjure her face. It was like trying to call up a melody while another song played."
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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
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"People don't change just because you know more about them."
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"It was one of those moments-which sometimes occur only at the interval of years-when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now."
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"Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat."
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"Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing."
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"Am I more afraidOf taking a chance andlearning I'm somebodyI don't know, or of risking new territory,only to find I'm the sameold me? There is comfortin the tried and true.Breaking groundmight uncover a sinkhole,one impossible to climb outof. And setting sail inuncharted watersmight mean capsizing intoa sea monster's jaws.Easier to turn my back onthese thingsthan to try tjem and fail.And yet, a whisper insistsI need to know if they are oraren't integral to me.Status quo is a swamp.And stagnation is slow death."
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"Are you suggesting I'm working with thezombies? That I paid them to pretend toattack me so that I'd trick you into letting me join you?"Did you? Mr. Holland demanded."Yeah, okay, I said in a sugar-sweet tone. "You're right. I was having dinner with Zombie Carl the other night. You know, steaks, rare, and a bottle of vintage type A. He told me all his secrets, but too bad for you I promised him I wouldn't tell. In exchange I asked him to gather hisbest undead buddies and stalk me throughmy friend's yard. And oh, yeah, it wastotally fine if they wanted to use me as an all-night dinner buffet, because having organs is so last season."
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"A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk."
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"But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?"
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"A Vampire!" I stammered. Then I noticed her legs. Below the cheerleader skirt, her left leg was brown and shaggy with a donkey's hoof. Her right leg was shaped like a human leg was it was made of bronze. "Uhh, a vampire with-""Don't mention the legs!" Tammi snapped. "It's rude to make fun."
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"The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband."
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"The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance."
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"Man is a pliant animal a being who gets accustomed to anything."
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"What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?"
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"And I was all, 'Don't be gross, you crustacious fuck. You pull that thing out and I'll pepper-spray you until you fry.' (You have to be stern with weenie waggers--I've been exposed to on the bus over seventeen times, so I know.)"
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"I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own."
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"Hey, you don't look like a rabbit."
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"I've never listened to music lying down. Listening's reading if you close your eyes.Music's a wood you walk through."
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