To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

We are the breakers of our own hearts

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

People loves Ideas I love books because Ideas can be found in books

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

She may have had enough time to deal with things. What if she does come back? What will you do?" Grant asked me. What would I do? I'd beg.

All I've ever tried to do is get the best out of people and to bring a bit of humour into it. Unlike, say, 'The X-Factor,' which may be great TV, but has no humour at all.

With her jaws and talons, Saphira tore through an Urgal.

Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or that her baby will lose her mother.

I think there is a big group of people out there who disagree about what is going on. They want to have their privacy back, they want to have internet freedom.

It's always money no matter kind of budget you have, though, it forces you to be creative and not take anything for granted.

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.