Telling it like it is means telling it like it was and how it is now that it isn't what it was to the is now people.
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other
We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.