Burn brightly without burning out.
The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.
There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
One must not be shy where language is concerned.
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.
Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin. ' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic!