We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society.

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.