Duty is what one expects from others.
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.
I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it.
What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.
Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.
As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
The millionaire says to a thousand people, 'I read this book and it started me on the road to wealth. ' Guess how many go out and get the book? Very few. Isn't that incredible? Why wouldn't everyone get the book?!
Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.
Colors express the main psychic functions of man.
Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.