A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

At a certain point, memory begins to be a burden.

I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.

People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser!

The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.

I know what's in my future is greater than what's in my past so I am pressing forward in life.

Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!