“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren’t with me I haven’t a thing in the world.

We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Hunger is good discipline.

You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

I’m tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you’re yet to be.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.