A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.

Generally, I don't attempt to produce a certain number of words a day. The discipline is to work whether you are producing a lot or not, because the day you produce a lot is not necessarily the day you do your best work. So it's trying to do it as regularly as you can without making it - without imposing too rigid a timetable on your self. That would be my ideal.

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.

When I was in England, I had seen advertisements about typing agencies; I had learned that if you really want to make a good impression, you should have your manuscript well typed.