“A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.” WantedSweetScentFloatsHamburgersHash Author:Jerry Stahl
“Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing but nerve ends screaming in the breeze.” EndsSkinsLeavingSpreadNervesLayersBreezeBlanketHeroinRipped Author:Jerry Stahl
“In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.” WantedCompanyMy FamilyMiseryHostage Author:Jerry Stahl
“The second time I took acid, I watched myself in the mirror for nine hours. What I realized, when I stared, was that my face looked exactly the same when I cried as when I laughed. After awhile I couldn't tell which I was doing. Relief was just pain inside out.” PainFacesHoursMirrorsI RealizedNineReliefLaughedCriedAcidPain Inside Author:Jerry Stahl
“Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.” RememberArmor Book:The Blinding Knife: Book 2 of Lightbringer Source: The Blinding Knife: Book 2 of Lightbringer
“I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenUsedSuccessfulAverageGrantedExpectingTook For Granted Author:Marilyn
“I worry when I can’t help the team with everything I have to offer.” I CanHelpingWorryTeamOffers Author:Luis Suarez
“About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published, I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories. There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.SFWW-I is that book. It's the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction.” KnowsWritingYearsFirstsBookStoriesMovingFictionMagazinesEditorsWriting FictionAspiring WritersFooling AroundMagazine Editors Author:Barry B. Longyear
“A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.” ShouldTryingHumansFictionScience FictionCosmicFiction Writers Author:Robert J. Sawyer
“My father is quite conservative and religious, and hes been wanting me to get married since I was 15.” FatherReligiousMarriedConservative Author:Vikram Chatwal