177 quotes found
Novelist · English · 1961
English novelist (born 1961)
“Another one of your quippy japes?”
“The best plans are always the simplest.”
“The course of true love rarely runs smooth.”
“Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.”
“Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”
“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine...”
“If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.”
“Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.”
“I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!”
“Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.”
“Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.”
“For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.”
“the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.”
“I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.”
“I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, li...”
“Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable. ”
“Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medalsand the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth...”
“Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can...”
“Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its formsof life, of love, of knowledgehas trac...”
“Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then and this is the important bit do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.”
“Chromataciasocietyruled by a colortocracysocial hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see.”
“Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.”
