I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it’s important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Lena Waithe won an Emmy for writing while starring on the Netflix show ‚Master of None,‘ but it might be more accurate to call her a Master of Everything.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

I am the freest author in the world.

All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Disagreement is something normal.

What you guys want, I’m for.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

I write all my sermons.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That’s what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Women can’t do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.