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If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.
In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.
Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.
Even an evil man can have principleshe can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.
To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.
I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.
If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project.
I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
Sometimes the reason we do not see the answer is that we are looking too closely at the question.
I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.
Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.
You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.
Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents.
I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.
Don't talk. Kill it." That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.
I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before.
My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.
...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.
If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.
On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.
In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend.
Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin
There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.
To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.
Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.
A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.
Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.
Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.
My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.
If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.