Salimuot Quotes & Sayings

Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden

It was blood. Blood that looked as if it had just been spilled. As I watched, it started pouring down the cavern's walls. — David Baldacci

The hardest moment comes BEFORE you get started. #DontGiveUpNow — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

Barack Obama's busy moving into the White House. Earlier today, John McCain was blowing on his soup. — David Letterman

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money? — Francis Ford Coppola

I wasn't loved, Smith. I was used. And even though I understand that his rejection tonight, his repudiation, was for the best - for all of us - I don't feel lucky. At all. — J.A. Huss

Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives. — Zadie Smith

With a book - presuming it's a good book - you can depend upon an outcome that adheres to the necessities of drama. The question will be answered. It has to be. The answer may not be happy; we can't guarantee a comedy. Sometimes tragedy strikes. But there will be a conclusion. Of that we can be sure. That's the whole point of a book. But in real life, there is no guarantee that any question will ever be answered. Real life is messy because we don't know where it's going to go. — Garth Stein

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh, misanthropy and sourness. Gary wanted to enjoy being a man of wealth and leisure, but the country was making it none too easy. All around him, millions of newly minted American millionaires were engaged in the identical pursuit of feeling extraordinary - of buying the perfect Victorian, of skiing the virgin slope, of knowing the chef personally, of locating the beach that had no footprints. There were further tens of millions of young Americans who didn't have money but were nonetheless chasing the Perfect Cool. And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary? Who would perform the thankless work of being comparatively uncool? — Jonathan Franzen

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer. — Kristin Scott Thomas

Human computers had no future, he saw: — James Gleick

It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea. — Louis Bromfield