Khwarizmi International Award Quotes

#1. If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too.

Anna Quindlen

#2. What man leaves a girl he just dragged to a strip joint to get interrogated by my dad?" "A smart and still living one." There wasn't an ounce of repentance in his reply or grin. "You are a bad cat." "The baddest, honey. Feel free to punish me anytime.

Eve Langlais

#3. I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas.

David Foster Wallace

#4. And it was there that I saw the most appealing creature in the whole shop. He had a slight chink out of one foot and his 'topknot' was missing (a 'topknot' is on the top of a dragon's head and looks a bit like a shark's fin) but I bought him in an instant.

Chris D'Lacey

#5. But have you ever seen one? ... They shook their heads. "Not Physically, no. But if you look at this passage - "
Man, she liked that Bible. I'd read it and could definitely understand it's appeal, but I didn't have time for this.

Darynda Jones

#6. The giant oak tree of a story, started with a small acorn of a thought.
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T.A. Cline