The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

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.

I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.