Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me.

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer.

Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story.

Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.

In Australia the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. I just didn’t expect to end up with the chicken.

I do not see the point in dressing and acting and speaking in a way that makes you feel more comfortable and me feel less comfortable.

People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.

Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?

The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

We throw away real people searching for the "perfect" person the same way that we throw ourselves away searching for our "perfect" self.

Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.