We’re much alike, bee, you and me,” I said. “You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.
Life must not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living. -Kensuke.
You have to understand the sea, he said, to listen to her, to look out for her moods, to get to know her and respect her and love her. Only then can you build boats that feel at home on the sea.
When you’re young you can’t work out the age of an adult – they’re just quite old, old, or very old.
When people make wars, they make refugees.
One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
Read a lot – poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.
Don’t worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.