Literature Quotes - Page 108

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

My stories are never quite good enough

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.