You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.

Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter

While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.