“Isnt that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?”

“...every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.”

“And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?”

“...there was a certain comfort in surrender.”

“Isn’t that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?”

“The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism”

“I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.”

“Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.”

“If you violate laws of God, you're a sinner.If you violate laws of men, you're a criminal.If you violate your own laws, you're pathetic.”

“There is no crime in anyones blood any more than there is goodness in the blood of others. Criminals are not born. They are made by hunger, want and injustice.”

“Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.”