"Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen."
"If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them."
“I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner life. ”
"Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self."
"There are enough writers already. Wait for some of us to die."
"I look back on that time and think how heartbreakingly young my mother and father were in 1944."
"Love is a dangerous angel."
"I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens."
“Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.”
"When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound."
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
