I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.
Make your best thoughts into action.
A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.
Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.
Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.
You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason
Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.
In the end all we have. . . are stories and methods of finding and using those stories.
I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.