Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.
if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.
You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.
You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.
We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.
It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.
Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.
It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday.
When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other people happy, avoid discomfort, do what is expected, and copy the status quo. Or you can look at all that you have accomplished today and use it as fuel to venture forth and write your own story. If you do, amazing things will take shape.
We must enable farmers to feed India and the world; and earn a good livelihood.
That’s the problem with heartbreak, to you it’s like an atomic bomb but to the world it’s just a cliche because in the end we all have the same experience.