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You might not believe it...but you make the world a better place when you smile.
write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.
Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all.
She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again.
I just tell people what they already know but are afraid to admit to themselves.
The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.
Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.
It's very gratifying to me to see my works bringing people closer to my country.
A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.
Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.
The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.
We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.
Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.
At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.
Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.
An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.
My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.
When I believe, I am crazy. When I don’t believe, I suffer psychotic depression.
When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.
I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.
I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.
To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.
In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle.
All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
A thousand books on tennis won’t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.
When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.
It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.
But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.
If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage.
Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.