Don't just read words, ' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

Do not curse the well that quenches your thirst.

There it was again, the prickling sense of standing on a precipice.

You must change in order to survive.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work I want to achieve it through not dying.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

I write only because I cannot stop.

From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

Good style, to me, is unseen style.