Matt Warren

“Don't put your faith in gods. But you can believe in turtles.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“I looked around my office with quiet satisfaction. The place looked pretty nice. I had pictures on the walls of me posing with clues, getting yelled at by the mayor, and so on. There was a calendar on one wall that was running a couple of years slow, but it looked okay and had the months right, so I left it up. On another wall was a sign that said "DO IT TOMORROW". I got it cheap because it's bad advice.”
― John Swartzwelder, The Time Machine Did It

“Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things. Stories aren’t about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.”
― Francine Prose, The Writer's Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House