At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.

...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others?

By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter, --making us think of funnier and funnier things.

Great leaders never sought followers but follower seek them

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.

The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.

The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.

If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself

Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a gracious companion, but an essential guide.