El pesado ropón negro que llevaba desde hacía años había desaparecido; tenía ahora un vestido de seda color turquesa, brillante y delicado como el cielo del atardecer, acampanado en las caderas. Y la falda estaba toda bordada con finos hilos de ...
Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is w...
Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this w...
I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write.
What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of...
If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.
To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ...
It could be a thousand things, distractions, worries; but very often I think what keeps a writer from finding the words is that she grasps at them too soon, hurries, grabs. She doesn’t wait for the wave to come in and break. She wants to write beca...
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen the...
I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.
Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.
In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
