If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.