Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people.

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.

Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.

Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don't think it's accurate to say, 'Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried.