As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual ….

You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading..

I always knew what I was doing..

It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for..

I cannot go and tell women what to wear and what not to wear; you have to decide on your own..

I really liked it best when I was a nobody..

Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with nar….

But we can't go back. We can only go forward..

I do voicework all the time..

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself..

We are the sum total of our experiences..

I'm always relearning things I thought I'd learned for good a while back..

It's engrained in us by society not to love ourselves..

When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living..

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other..

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it see….

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read..

The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room….

Words, however, are things..

You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over..

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths..