Saying that 'I am a grateful alcoholic' will then reflect the truth about who we have become in our person, having understood deeply and intimately that God in his grace can turn any evil, any pain we have suffered or inflicted, to good purpose. – ...
Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down to the bottom of the mental lake. Although they go down, they aren’t completely erased. Don’t think you ever forget anything. ...
Literary style is like crystal-ware: the cleaner the wineglass, the brighter the brilliance. As a reader, I agree with those who believe that a colour of the dress, which a character has on, as well as any enumeration and description of dishes at din...
I read and write for character. If I like and can relate to the characters in a story I can enjoy any kind of story. I also want something with a definitive plot—you know, beginning, middle and end--that has forward motion. I don’t like series bo...
I think politics is deadly to write about, frankly. If you have a political agenda and you set out to write a novel to prove that, say, capitalism should crumble, then it's going to be a really bad novel. Very few people have been able to deal with p...
Imagine that you are stuck on a long train ride and must choose one of two books to read in order to pass the time: the first is a novel whose main character is an office worker who is essentially working to pay his monthly cable bill; the second is ...
This is a place of true imagination.
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
A hair divides what is false and true.
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
The true mystery of the universe is the nothingness, not the everything.
In true prose everything must be underlined.
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Your spirit is the true shield.
Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.
