Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

I am not beautiful, so I don't know why I'm making myself ugly. But the mustache stays.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.

Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right now.

Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest

I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he's so artificial. I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.

I'm a deeply superficial person.

There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones.

Because I'm a Thunderclan cat like you," she replied, ad darker shadow in the darkness of the tunnel. "My name is Hollyleaf

Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.