You have to throw yourself away when you write.

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.

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

This is no tall story. Nor is it a short story. Indeed, a story cannot be measured, for their realities stretch far beyond a page or one person’s life.

This [egalitarianism vs complementarianism] is not an issue of chauvinism or discrimination. It is an issue of Biblical interpretation.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.