“I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.” Quote by Cassandra Clare
“We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.” ThinkingLyingLinesFictionMovementStraight LinesFiction WritersMazesFlux Author:Jeanette Winterson
“I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.” KnowsBookTurnsKnow How Author:Cassandra Clare
“Life is fragmentary, and the pattern that creativity can offer is not one that is imposed, not something rigid, but rather something which can reveal the intrinsic patterns of that fragmentation. Things are in a perpetual dance, but there is an order. It's not really random at all.” Life IsOrderCreativityOffersPatternsPerpetualFragmentation Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Bacon is clearly a food made by the Nazis to fatten up Americans. It has no nutritional value, is full of fat, sodium, and nitrates, and is a pathetic type of consumable made from the noblest of creatures.” MadeValuesTypeCreaturesFatsNaziPatheticSodium Author:Andy Rooney
“If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.” IfsGoes OnInternetMets Author:Andy Rooney
“You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.” KnowsYearsPersonsBodySevenCellsSeven Years Author:Jeanette Winterson
“As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.” PeoplePatternsDullBiasedNew Experiences Author:Jeanette Winterson
“People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.” PeopleThinkingWorldMindImportantChoicesCultureNationsThis WorldCorporateRobotsFreedom Of ChoiceCorporate Culture Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment.” PeopleThinkingWayMayLongPrinciplesTechnologyModernSurvivalMedicineStartingShopsPairsSupporterGrandparentNew TechnologyDarwinismSurvival Of The FittestModern MedicineFeckless Author:Andy Rooney
“The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.” YearsFirstsMadeFactsUniverseStarsYears AgoConnectedNuclearBillionsAtomsExplosions Author:Jeanette Winterson