Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.
To write is to think, and to write well is to think well.
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.
The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.