"There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns." Octavia E. Butler
"I love words. I'm using some right now." -Lou Sanders
"Today's stakes are too big for crime to be left to the criminals." - John Le Carre
"As soon as we die we enter into fiction." - Hilary Mantell
"Whatever may be the thing which one wishes to say, there is but one word for expressing it, only one verb to animate it, only one adjective to qualify it. It is essential to search for this word, for this verb, for this adjective, until they are discovered, and to be satisfied with nothing else." - Flaubert
"Life was unfair but it had nothing on death." - Scott Kikkawa
"Why do people bother burning books if no one's reading them?" - Stephen Pastis
"Anyone who believes they can tell when they are being watched has never tried to catch a waiter's eye." - Lorrie B. Potters
"Readers love to be disoriented. That's part of the fun of reading." - Mark Stevens
"The use of quotation marks does not convert a passage into dialogue." - Arlo Bates