Resettling The First American Quotes

#1. Absence makes the heart suicidal.

Penny Reid

#2. I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'

Octavia E. Butler

#3. She felt something inside her turn to stone and fall down into her gut, where it lay cold and hard and uncomfortable. Which was impossible, of course. Human organs did not turn to stone and certainly could not shift into the stomach.

Trudi Canavan

#4. Frustration often steers you to the right path.

Joyce Rachelle

#5. Most men want to follow, and what they demand of their leader is prosperity. We are the ring givers, the gold givers.

Bernard Cornwell

#6. This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a release for me.

David Ignatius

#7. Most Russians don't care whether they are ruled by fascists or communists or even Martians as long as they can buy six kinds of sausage in the store and lots of cheap vodka.

Alexander Lebed

#8. Dawn Madden's got cruel eyes like a Chinese empress and sometimes one glimpse at school makes me think about her all day.

David Mitchell

#9. We have a name for the Second Coming but none for a second coming.

William H Gass