10 quotes found
Writer · American · 1960–2024
American writer (1960–2024)
“The story I'm writing finds its own voice while I'm writing it.”
“The story I'm writing finds its own voice while I'm writing it.”
“Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.”
“I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.”
“Console yourself not with the lie that your foe is weak, or stupid, or evil. Sometimes the enemy is worthy. Sometimes his cause is just. Sometimes both sides are right in their own ways-and in the ...”
“If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time to pursue them is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.”
“Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to give us the power and the tools to dream beyond reality's 'merely ...”
“Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.”
“Race doesn't exist.Skin color exists. Hair and eye color are real. Body type varies from individual to individual, as does tooth shape and color, the form of fingernails, and the amount and texture...”
“I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under t...”