We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

murder your darlings

The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.

They are but beggars that can count their worth.

True Love is a spiritual force that binds two hearts, and two souls, together as one.

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

I'm very moved and very excited. And it just seems to me here are houses and trees and streets that feel so different from New York. I feel very attached to London; I love it.

When I'm focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I'm gonna get there.

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

Whose is it, do you think?" I say finally. "No telling," says Finnick. "Why don't we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?

If you don't have a vision, you can never be focused in a direction.