Period movies are just always a wonderful thing to work on.
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
We don't say nothing more. What else is there to say? Everything and nothing. You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.
If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean
Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
It's not art, it's science.
After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and Eve did when they ate the fruit was to discover that they had no clothes on. They were embarrassed. Embarrassment was the first consequence of the Fall. And embarrassment was the first literary consequence of this modernist discovery of the surface. "Am I telling a story? Oh my God, this is terrible. I must stop telling a story and focus on the minute gradations of consciousness as they filter through somebody's.
You have your opinion, I have mine, and it takes all kinds of nuts and dips to make a party, right?
With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.