Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs.

There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it.

I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.

Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.

A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health.

Businesses need to be more alert. Sometimes the problem is not the customer service, it is the product.

Have you become a song in someone's heart?

Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you through the day.

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.