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Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.

Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei

She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.

Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.

I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

If you write something, and you believe in it, you'd like to see sixty million people moved by it.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

The Trans-Siberian Express is like a cruise across an oceanic landscape. I've done it three times.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me.

I think every person and place is interesting, and there's an interesting story behind every door.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

Anybody who says, 'My childhood was completely happy,' is a person who isn't remembering the truth.

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students’ hearts forever.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

They shared the chores of living as some couples do-she did most of the work and he appreciated it.

I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.

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