“People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.”
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People Quotes — page 942 of 5018
“There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.”
“Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.”
“Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.”
“Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.”
“You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.”
“Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.”
“There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.”
“God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.”
“And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous thing there is, Tom. Infection was what made the superflu germ kill all the people. And infection is what made people want to make the germ in the first place. An infection of the mind.”
“I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”
“I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.”
“Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.”
“Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try to stop the wind from blowing.”
“The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.”
“I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.”
“Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.”
“Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.”
“Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.”
“It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the shore; it's also the pool where some hardy souls go out in their flimsy wooden boats after the big ones. It is the pool of life, the cup of imagination, and she has an idea that different people see different versions of it, but with two things ever in common: it's always about a mile deep in the Fairy Forest, and it's always sad. Because imagination isn't the only thing this place is about.”