A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is-full of surprises.
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
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I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
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If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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Take three quarts of duck's milk.
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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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