Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don’t fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.
I guess I’m destined to be loveless.
I’ll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.
I don’t think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by itself. Over the last several years, my life has been all about writing these books, but the books aren’t about my life.
It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I’d own half the world by now.
If you’re going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it’s just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.
Humor is important. If you’re going to tell any sort of realistic story, you’re going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.
If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.
Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give is the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
Its like he knows he’s better than you, but doesn’t look down on you for it because he knows it’s not your fault.
If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.
There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other is to lend.
Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it, the conceit of the frame-less story is actually the odd way of doing things. Without the frame, how do you know the context for a story?
But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns.
Just because I tread heavily on propriety’s toes doesn’t mean I can’t play the game when it’s of use to me.
I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.
Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.
Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.