The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.

We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.

Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there be any more important job in life than that?

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516

He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined, and so he had come to accept that this would only be half as good as the original, half as acceptable as the flawless, unachievable novel that had acted as a guide, and which he imagined pulsating mockingly behind each book like some ghostly presence.

I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.