Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead
It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.
A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.
I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.
It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.
It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.
Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image. . . As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.
I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.