"I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read."This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons."
"If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you."
"The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way."
"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
"you must not come lightly to the blank page."
"The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows"