410 quotes found
“Anyone young, famous and beautiful who dies young is forever frozen in time and fascinating to all of us.”
“Holding the bread to her chest, she made her way home, thinking of those dreamy winter afternoons, when the light looked as it did now, the crystalline blue of the sky slipping into a faded purple,...”
“They tell us race is an invention, that there is no genetic variation between two black people than there is between a black person and a white person. Then they tell us black people have a worse k...”
“Most historical accounts were written by fallible scholars, using incomplete or biased resource materials; written through the scholars' own conscious or unconscious predilections; published by tex...”
“The longer I don't write, the more I hurt.”
“The world is going crazy, Karl. And when the world is crazy, a sane man is never okay." from The Berlin Boxing Club”
“Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you. It will only burn what you are not, - Rumi”
“No one ever tells you that: that theres no method. Writings a lawless place.”
“Durand smiles. There is nothing behind the smile except perhaps another smile, repeating ad infinitum into the distance.'Of course,' he says.”
“Was I right?" she asked him. "Was I right to make a stand against what I believed to be wrong? Even though many ills have come from it? I have been asking myself this a lot lately. I must be quiet ...”
“In my long career in this historical fiction business, though, I've found that the most effective storytelling concept is this: Once upon a time it was now.That has become my credo and my method as...”
“It is one of the great arts of the human soul," Ezekiel said to himself. Her hand on the door, Quincy shifted and looked back at her uncle's profile. "What is?""Staying with someone. Companionship ...”
“Quincy and Fisher walked through all this in silence. Silence was the most common stock-in-trade between them, and the portfolio of their friendship was thick with it. So, without words, they stepp...”
“If she could walk away, she would; her pride demanded at least that much from her. But Quincy knew that her heart beat with the rhythm of the presses in the back room, that her blood ran black with...”
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become." -Steve Jobs”
“For the first time in years, I have vivid dreams, vivid enough to count the stars and the number of ripples in the sea.”
“Anything from Kipling”
“What determines how we remember history and which elements are preserved and penetrate the collective consciousness? If historical novels stir your interest, pursue the facts, history, memories, an...”
“William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn't understand, nor did the abbot understand it, and perhaps it was best for us both, because the word William uttered had an obscene hissi...”
“There is not a lost piece of yourself that can't be found in a good novel.”
