Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.

How can we tell people "never give up" when some haven't even started yet.

If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.

To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

I'd love to play at Wembley. It's special for Barça - and for everyone in football.