If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.

Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet...?

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don’t think it’s something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that,.

A little adversity can't hold me down.

Every time you think, you weaken the nation.

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle.

If you are not learning, no one will ever let you down.

I can't remember what my first script was.