Shéa MacLeod > Shéa's Quotes

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
― Agatha Christie

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“You know how spooky Ashwini is. She called an hour ago to tell me she has a secret stash of handheld grenade launchers she thought I might want to know about. My response was, 'What the fuck?”
― Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood

“My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.”
― Janet Evanovich

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
― Stephen King

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
― Stephen King

“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”
― Janet Evanovich

“I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.”
― Ann Aguirre, Doubleblind

“Only men you can count on these days are Ben and Jerry.”
― Janet Evanovich

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“I wasn't dating anyone. I was fornicating with Batman.”
― Janet Evanovich, Hard Eight

“Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama”
― Gail Carriger

“There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.”
― Richard Castle

“Go ahead. Rip my bodice.”
― Richard Castle, Naked Heat