Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.
The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.
The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.
Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.
The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.
Revision is not the end of the creative process, but a new beginning. It's a chance not just to clean up and edit, but to open up and discover. The energetic prose comes about from all the energy that went into crafting it, I suppose.
Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.
Most pedophiles are straight not gay.
Life is no way to treat an animal.
It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.
The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.