“People who don’t read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn’t it?”

“Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists.”

“write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.”

“It’s in Latin.”
“So? What does it say?”
“I don’t read Latin!”
“You’re kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn’t that the international language for smart people?”

“Acknowledging progress isn’t saying ‘we’re done’ or ‘we don’t need more’, and being gloomy doesn’t make you a better person.”

“It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.”

“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.”

“A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.”

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

“i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead.”