Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened..

I have the death sentence in seven genres..

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does..

Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's eas….

How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?.

A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day..

"Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been ….

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us..

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books..

Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in t….

He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but ….

Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix..

She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holme….

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time..

I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time..

That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd..

Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long t….

Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes ….

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd….

Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for ma….

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no….