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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!.

Words of love, are works of love.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!