“People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.”

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time to write. Simple as that.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman’s got to hold on to.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

The past is obdurate.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

Hurt’s a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don’t change facts.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

I just get bored easily. As I’m sure other people do too.

Get bored with your past, it’s over!

Never bored, so I’ll never get old.

Boredom is not an illness but a symptom of an illness. Work defies boredom.

Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

At some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over and over.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.