It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts..

Life does often get in the way of one's reading..

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and al….

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, beca….

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job..

Nothing good comes out of depression..

I started out in life as a poet, I was only writing poetry all through my 20s, it wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose.….

Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will..

I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book takes me about two years to writ….

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers..

My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for….

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now..

Nothing good ever comes without a price..

For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel ….

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and suffer….

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can..

Throughout all ranks of society, from the successful merchant, which is the highest, to the domestic serving man, which is the lowest, they are all t….

You can't get it right, until you make it wrong..

I am a writer, not a transcriber..

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping..

I've lived my life dealing with everybody. And that's how it's always been for me..