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

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.

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.

God's justice will always be found at the end of a pen.

Life is neither a party nor pain. But a prayer.

One day, all your worries will set like the sun does and deserved happiness will come gushing like waves at the beach do. All you need to make sure id that your trips to beach never end.

At times, love is silent because of too much hurt or too much care. At all times, love is the strongest voice you can always rely on.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

I want everybody to travel, to travel and not be afraid.

There are no half-hearted champions.

Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.