Knave Magazine Quotes & Sayings

What people don't understand, they laugh at. — Geraldine McCaughrean

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.
A novel for me is an immersive experience where I feel as if I have lived it and that I've tasted the food and experienced the sex and experienced the terror of battle. So I want all of the detail, all of the sensory things - whether it's a good experience, or a bad experience, I want to put the reader through it. To that mind, detail is necessary, showing not telling is necessary, and nothing is gratuitous. — George R R Martin

His kiss is like dark chocolate, bitter and laced with sweetness - an aphrodisiac. — Mia Asher

Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., — Louis L'Amour

We all choke. You're not human if you haven t. — Curtis Strange

What do you want to do sadhana for? The aim should not be the satisfaction of egoism: "I want to be a great yogi; I shall have so much power and with that power I shall establish myself in the world." All such thoughts must be thrown far away. — Sri Aurobindo

True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier - when it's spelled with a lower case letter. — Richard Hamming

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. — Gore Vidal

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. — Paulo Coelho

I don't know what to do with Warren Beatty. All I know is that he wasn't attracted to me. That's all right. — Elaine Stritch

The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world. — David Gerrold

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians. — Zooey Deschanel