Good books are for consideration after, too.
Books are a uniquely portable magic
Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.
If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, Iâll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming âWhere are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?
A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.
Me cae bien la gente que lee libros, y no sĂłlo porque yo solĂa escribirlos. Los lectores de libros estĂĄn tan dispuestos como cualquiera a iniciar una conversaciĂłn con el tema del tiempo, pero son capaces de pasar de ahĂ.
Hicks szemĂŒgyre vette a könyveket, amiket Maura begyƱjtött a polcokrĂłl: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill. - Ezek horrortörtĂ©netek! - kiĂĄltott fel. - Hagyjuk, hogy az elĂtĂ©ltek ilyesmit olvassanak? - Csak ezt olvassĂĄk, meg a romantikus regĂ©nyeket, uram - jelentette ki Maura (...).
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.
I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'
After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.
