I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.
Everything’s been said, but it needs saying again.
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
And that’s all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we – each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.
We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don’t know how much in common that they have.
You’ve got to bend with the wind or you’re broken.
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That’s the only thing.
The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can’t have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.
Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he’s the One.
He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I’m trying to figure out what manliness really is.
There will always be men struggling...
The mark of fear is not easily removed.
All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
I think I’m a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don’t only believe in God, I know there’s God.
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
We wait till now? Now, when we’re old men, we get to be brave?