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..

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise..

Bad beginnings, bad endings..

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..

This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churc….

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….

A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mo….

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

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts..

If you like what you're reading, I probably wrote it..

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….