Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.
Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.
The form is so malleable and can do so many things.
I'm certainly eclectic in my writing.
The neighborhoods I grew up in were poor and full of drug users. I don't think you have to look that hard to find those kinds of lives. But I also don't think you have to have experienced it really close to be able to empathize.
For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are, you wish you could not do them. For most of us it's "I cannot get off Facebook. " But imagine that your demon has you living on the street. I don't think those compulsions and obsessions are that different.
The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think it's how you teach yourself to write.
The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
The History of Evolution is the real source of light in the investigation of organic bodies. It is applicable at every step, and all our ideas of the correlation of organic bodies will be swayed by our knowledge of the history of evolution. To carry the proof of it into all branches of research would be an almost endless task. (1828)
We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives.
I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.