BiographyType: Writer Born: January 1, 1957 Died: Christopher Moore is an American writer of absurdist fiction. He grew up in Mansfield, OH, and attended Ohio State University and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA. Moore's novels typically involve conflicted everyman characters suddenly struggling through supernatural or extraordinary circumstances. Inheriting a humanism from his love of John Steinbeck and a sense of the absurd from Kurt Vonnegut, Moore is a best-selling author with major cult status. |
Mr. Asher, you can resist who you are for only so long. Finally, you just decide to go with fate.
As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.
Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.
...and thus he found his single source of joy in the society of other people: frightening the girls with his penis.
In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.
Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....
I'm feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another.
So I am death" Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast.
"This is death toast sweety.
'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished.
'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters are craftsmen, not storytellers. Paint what you see.'
Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was how much you could see.
I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.