Nancy Herkness Quotes & Sayings

Ha! Don't you know that writers are control freaks? We make our characters dance to our own weird tunes. That's half the fun."

She angled his head ever so slowly to the right. "What's the other half?" Just as the position became uncomfortable, she reversed the motion.

"Rewriting," he said. "You know how you think of a brilliant response to an insult six hours later when it's utterly useless? A writer has a time machine. I can go back to the moment the insult was hurled and parry it with my slow but rapier-sharp wit."

"Relax. I've got you," she said, rotating his head gently to the right. "I guess us nonwriters think you just sit down at your computer and the book comes out the way we read it."

"We foster that myth. It makes us seem more like creative geniuses and less like mere craftsmen. — Nancy Herkness

Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." - Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey — Nancy Herkness

What he really wanted was to have her lying beside him naked while he fed it all to her with his fingers. A man could use his imagination. — Nancy Herkness

into the quiet dark — Nancy Herkness

She slanted him a warning glance, but the corners of her mouth twitched. — Nancy Herkness

though her insides would burst — Nancy Herkness

Nathan nodded. "Luck is the residue of design. — Nancy Herkness

Luck is the residue of design." "We're — Nancy Herkness

vellum, and blotted it. "Why not just shred it since you've won?" Chloe asked, a little miffed that the bet would linger on. "We want to destroy them - or reveal them - all at the same time." He took Chloe's hands in his and faced her. "We were gambling with the most important of our possessions: our hearts. — Nancy Herkness

to? A vision of Nathan feeding her chunks of lobster from his fingers while they were lying in bed naked danced through her mind. — Nancy Herkness