The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.

He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.

To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.