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“It's so exciting when a book catches traction you didn't even expect (or completely did expect!), and so frustrating when a book never quite catches the traction you know it deserves. But either way it doesn't change the book, it doesn't change how much I love that book, or how thrilled I am to be publishing it.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately - many people will help you unintentionally.”
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“I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver.”
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“If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.”
Source : Karen Traviss (2008). “Sacrifice: Star Wars Legends (Legacy of the Force)”, p.135, Del Rey
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“Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.”
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“Shall I make it clear, boys, for all to apprehend, Those that will not hear, boys, waiting for the end, Knowing it is near, boys, trying to pretend, Sitting in cold fear, boys, waiting for the end?”
Source : William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen
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“We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.”
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“It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.”
Source : Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1851). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.28