Matt Warren

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

“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

“I never conceived of myself as participating in some Oedipal anxiety about literary predecessors. Perhaps this is one of the great gifts of being a feminist: you’re off the hook from all that crap.”
― Francine Prose, The Writer's Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House

“No one outside the family has ever known the full story," he said. "You must swear you'll never reveal a word of what I'm about to tell you to anyone."

I said sure, you got it, Ace. And I meant it, too. But the thing people should know about me when they swear me to secrecy is that I don't have a good memory. The first thing I forget is that it's a secret. The second thing I forget is who told me this secret. The third and final thing I forget is the secret itself. So if you tell me something in the strictest secrecy, you're guaranteeing that everyone in the world will know this secret except me.”
― John Swartzwelder, The Time Machine Did It