You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.

You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.

One alphabet at a time, you can write an encyclopaedia. One word at a time, you can publish an entire library.

A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected. An empty page remains an empty page.

Is there anything like a collective brain?

Is that all you've got? A few tricks and quick feet? That's no way to enforce your bold tongue!

I am obsessed with not being obsessed with acquiring material things.

When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.

If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

Many Of Them Have Things -- What They Lack Is The Richness Of Spirit