A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

We must encourage, support and comfort one another.

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.