“Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.”

“That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.”

“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

(, 8 September 1935)”

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.”

“People you knew when you were teenagers, the ones who saw your stupidest haircut and the most embarrassing things you've done in your life, and they still cared about you after all that: they're not replaceable, you know?”

“…having children changes your life like nothing else. It'll be the hardest and best thing you've ever done.”

“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”

“If you merely read this book you will not reach the Way of strategy. Absorb the things written in this book. Do not just read, memorise or imitate, but so that you realise the principle from within your own heart study hard to absorb these things into your body.”

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”