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.

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

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.

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

You have to throw yourself away when you write.

Even if you are a loser today, it doesn’t mean that you cannot change yourself

If you are able to introduce a white person to a new cheese, it's like introducing them to a future spouse.

I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.

I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.

I would love to eat a really great burger, but it doesn't exist in our part of the world.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.