You wizards are all the same. You speak nonsense while making wise and meaningful faces. - The Witcher

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff. - The Doctor (Doctor Who)

The best investment is in the tools of one’s own trade. - Benjamin Franklin

A cliffhanger is when… - Buffy Andrews

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. - Oscar Wilde

Whatever these forces are that make people do dumb things, they are powerful, they are often invisible, and they lurk even in the best of environments. - Ed Catmull

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost. - Thomas Bernhard

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence…. Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never. - Franz Kafka

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. - Hector Berlioz

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. - Hippocrates

Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. - Gustave Flaubert

Continuity isn’t actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don’t use it where you don’t need to. - Neil Gaiman

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. - Robert Half

I don’t plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn’t be a closed system - it’s a quest. - Kurt Vonnegut

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? - Jerry Seinfeld

This is going to take a while. I’m a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. - Brandon Sanderson

If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep. - Anton Chekhov