A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
Did you know that every human being is created with a purpose and that they have a responsibility to not only discover their purpose but also to fulfill it?
He who writes the Resolved Clause, wins the debate.
. . . we feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment.
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.