Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.
I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.
Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.
The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.
Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.
It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.
Just because you don't see me doesn't mean I wasn't there
How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with. " - Eclipse, page 208
To call a work of art Kitsch is to condemn it for being bad art. But there is a great deal of bad art that we do not condemn as Kitsch. To condemn something as Kitsch is to condemn it on moral grounds.
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.
Not counting Small Steps, I think Holes is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn’t changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I’m still too close to Small Steps to compare it to Holes.