Pakorn Left Quotes & Sayings

I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included. — Barbara Kingsolver

This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience. — Lauren Oliver

Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Competitiveness has been a big thing for me. — Bobby Rahal

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance. — Joanna Trollope

THE TO NOT DO LIST There are a million important things to do. But none as important as lying here next to you. — Pleasefindthis

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by. — Tim Burton

My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review. — Hank Stuever

Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end up bound forever in hopeless knots, even to the shadow of a beast you knew and loved long ago. — Catherynne M Valente

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear. — Isidore Of Seville

I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back to fiction. — Jennifer Egan

Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Anything less than the desert was a dream. — Kameron Hurley