I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

The book belongs to the author.

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

You have to throw yourself away when you write.

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."

You couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better.

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

Adversity does not build character,it reveals it

You must avoid the investigation trap. You can't postpone tough decisions by studying them to death.

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!