Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.
Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.
He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned, either he could hoist it on his back and lug it along or he could walk away from it. Anonymity was the thing he loved most about the city, being a part of it and apart from it at the same time.
Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.
Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.
What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in: 'There's a right way, a wrong way, and my way. ' You want to see how that looks on the page, pick up any of Craig McDonald's novels. He's built him a nice little shack out there way off all the reg'lar roads, and he's brewing some fine, heady stuff. Leave your money under the rock and come back in an hour.
The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.
I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.
We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.
From now on, anyone raped at Penn State should just tell Joe Paterno's statue. It couldn't help you any less than the real Joe would have.
Good night, sweetheart," he says. "Good bye, sweetheart," I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing.