A.L. Knorr > A.L.'s Quotes

“You have 100,000 times more synapses in your brain than sensory receptors in your body. Therefore, you are roughly 100,000 times better equipped to experience a world that does not exist than a world that does.”
― Roy Williams

“He's never been a bowl of peaches, but Eric has really cranked up his inner asshole lately.”
― A.L. Knorr, Born of Water (Elemental Origins, #1)

“I have no delusions that a diary can ever remain private and so I shall write to you, dear reader, and imagine that you may be a distant descendant of mine or perhaps have come across this diary by happenstance a century after I have turned to dust.”
― A.L. Knorr, Born of Water (Elemental Origins, #1)

“and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” Tyrion tapped the leather cover of the book. “That’s why I read so much, Jon Snow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“She was a glacier buckling in the heat. Great slabs of her cracking and falling off with awful crashes. ‘You scared me shitless.”
― Laure Eve, The Curses

“He loved the kid, after all, and love stretched to cover a multitude of oddities. He had an idea that was one of the things love was for.”
― Stephen King, Desperation

“around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I was ashamed. I have spent a good many years since – too many, I think – being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction and poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,’ he said. ‘When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft