Stephen King

'Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.'

Stephen King

Mark Twain

'The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug ..'

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

'Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you will have ceased to live ... '

Mark Twain

Joanne Harris

'Places all have their own characters, and returning to a city where you have lived before is like coming home to an old friend. But the people begin to look the same; the same faces recurring in cities a thousand miles apart, the same expressions. The flat, hostile stare of the official. The curious look of the peasant. The dull unsurprised faces of the tourists. The same lovers, mothers, beggars, cripples, vendors, joggers, children, policemen, taxi drivers, pimps. After a while one begins to feel slightly paranoid, as if these people were secretly following from one town to another, changing clothes and faces but remaining essentially unchanged, going about their dull business with half an eye slyly cocked at us, the intruders.'

Joanne Harris

Khaled Hosseini

' ... I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering it things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night ... '

Khaled Hosseini