“I’m not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it’s a big difference.”

My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.

Writers don’t need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.

You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what’s inside of all of us.

I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society’s image of old people and ‘us’ as we know and feel ourselves to be.

In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.

The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.

The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.

But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.