That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that. That’s one of the things that Joss Whedon excels at in his storytelling.
Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.
You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.
Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
For me the really cool parts of being an author don’t have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.
This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.
I need you to breathe for me.
Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it’s going to wear down the reader.
I was just wondering why you’re here.
Everything said, you couldn’t hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.
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.
You know, I could have carried you.
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.
If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.