There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

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.

Life is hard, Should you be too?

Beauty of trees is not judged by shape, size and species, then why ours?

I believe that music is God's voice.

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.

India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.