Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.

Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.

Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.

We read books to find out who we are.

The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.