Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away.
Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.
I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.
Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes. " Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you. " "Do you promise?""Yes.
Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.
He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.
I want to have a cultural impact. I want to be an inspiration, to show people what can be done.
We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement.
Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.