Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

The book belongs to the author.

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.

You have to throw yourself away when you write.

It's so Hogwarts.

It matters not what my brain knows, but what my heart feels.

Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable.

If printing money helped the economy, then counterfeiting should be legal

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

I want to go out on my terms.

You live by the light of the moon, and I live by desire.

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.