The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
From James A. Michener
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.
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