Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we’ve ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.
Nothing in her life makes sense.All she craves is for the pieces of the puzzle to fit together again.She is sure one day it will happen. She just doesn’t know when.She can’t fight injustice alone– for that, she needs her friends.
She is intent on pleasing the men that frighten her.
One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.
You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.
The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.
I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.
Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.
No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.
First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.
Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.
Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters.
Blank walls are a shared canvas and we’re all artists.
Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.
Life isn’t over until you’re dead. Another ultra-positive, ultra-motivational tweet to improve your day. You’re welcome.
The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.
He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.
Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.
Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.
Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.
Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside.
Please, never tell me what ‘horror erotica’ is. Real #art is being lost in a bizarre swamp of over-processed, sexually exploitative garbage.
I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.
A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.
The only difference between writers and people who don’t write is that writers aren’t afraid to display their demons.
She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.
I always feel anxious if anyone’s close to uncovering my secrets.
The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.
I’ve always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times.
We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives.
She was not alone in her respect for him. Because he is more than a boss to people. He’s a religion for non-believers.
Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves.
I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.
Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can’t be and say what I can’t say in everyday life.
There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.
Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.
It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.
Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.
Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.
Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.
Every time I so much as blink you get an erection.
To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.
He’s in a side room alone with her and it’s far too fucking hot.
You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.
Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?
I’m warning you because you’re young and vulnerable. He’s a dirty, lying, conniving piece of shit and he’s dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.
When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I’ve known who had no voice.
All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.
Welcome to Sex Media, Where Fantasy Becomes Reality!
It is not fiction. It is history. And both their histories match now.
This is a landscape of dreams cemented in the past, of hopes gone cold, of girls and boys for rent in officially empty tower blocks, where none is truly so.
Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher – her asabikeshiinh – with its willow-web and invisible ‘lady spider’ apparently weaving her spells – an object Bea insisted always hung above her in bed.
Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.
When people say, ‘you’re so young to be a writer,’ I always reply, ‘I started young because I’ve got a lot to write.
Writing is more about telling other peoples’ stories than your own
There are times when I can’t believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it.
Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn’t always know what it is.
The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.
Someone asked me, ‘How do you write a book?’ I said, ‘I live with a pen in one hand.
Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
It’s better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.
I lose it when I can’t write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.
Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.
I’m much more than a writer – I’m someone who puts different words together in an interesting way.
When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, “You can do this. You’ve got what it takes.” The other sounds like my mother-in-law.
If I don’t stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.
I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.
My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.
I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call “food”.
I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.
People love books because they’re searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions – and books get as close as it’s possible to get.
Bravery isn’t brandishing a sword. It’s standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.
There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn’t.
There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.
People who don’t read fiction are scared of what’s inside their own heads.
People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.
When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I’ve found what freedom really means.