There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.

I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.

But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.