True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

The doer alone learneth.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

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

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

It’s so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I’ve never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

My advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

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

No man was ever wise by chance.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

Sometimes I think that there’s a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.