"So maybe this is what the rest of us [non-fanfiction writers] look like ( Read more... )

I'm reading through Amanda Cross's Kate Fansler mysteries and ran across a lovely quote in one that was published in 1971, during the Vietnam War:
...he had lost the connection between his personal morality and the national morality of his beloved country, on whose behalf he was willing to defend offensive practices on the grounds of national ( Read more... )

"Complaining that science won't take ID seriously is like grieving the fact that mathematicians won't consider a flower pot to be a number."

From this column by John Moore in the National Post.

"I'm a novelist. I'm never going to finish the book."

--Gerry (John Lynch), in Sliding Doors

I was poking around in the Northern Sun online catalogue and ran across this bumpersticker:

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
-Voltaire

"In the end, every community and grouping of human beings (except, of course, the Rolling Stones) drifts apart and goes its separate ways."
- Tom Holt, Flying Dutch

"...the flaw of the novel-reader is to want to know what will happen if a situation is allowed to develop unmolested."
- Pamela Dean, Tam LinNo, nothing particular going on to provoke ( Read more... )