It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.

Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.

I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.

To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else.

Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day.

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.

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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.

Be hopeful at all times and walk in faith, but above all seek love an walk in it. God is love, and when we walk in love we show Him to those we come in contact with.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.

Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians