Why would people want to take advice from a group of people who pretend to be other people for a living?
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Don't waste inspiration
What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
Often the best advice is not to seek advice.
My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any...
Don't worry about how something is going to happen, just know that it is all unfolding perfectly, whether you can see it or not.
I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.
Time passes no matter what you do.
The thing you are most afraid to write—write that - advice to young writers
There is no such thing as, "I trust you a little or I trust you a lot." You either trust, or you do not.
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.
I've received two key pieces of advice in regard to my books. The first is, You should lay off the f - bombs. The other is, You should add more f - bombs.
If you want to do something in your life, share everything but never your ideas.
If you don't know where you are going, you can arrive at any destination.
One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.
Kids, no matter how big your problems are – ask your parents for help and advice.
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...