She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how.
Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.
The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.
I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.
When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.
There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.
I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.
Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.
'Soul Plane' put me in a position to succeed. I'm glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.
I don't do any vulgar movements.