Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

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.

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.

How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in return! One should never remember a kindness done, and never forget a kindness received.

True wisdomis not borrowed knowledgeit must be basedon my own experience.That which I learn from othersis memory, not wisdom

You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)

Are you going to win every argument?" He was pretty certain he'd asked her that once before. May be twice. "Only the important ones.

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

Lleyton Hewitt... his two greatest strengths are his legs, his speed, his agility and his competitiveness.

Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt

No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.