Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?

You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer

The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

You will realize your life is most peaceful when you actually stop caring or worrying about things and situations you can not change.

Causing harm is never just a one-way street.

Getting into the habit of changing who you are to please others, is setting a lifetime marathon of running away from yourself.

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

My house is burned, but I can see the sky.

I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at.

If you can truly believe what you are pretending to do is really happening, then your audience will believe it, too.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?