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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer...  
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that ...  
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubter...   Religion
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision...   Art
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonder...  
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each s...  
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health o...   Nature
I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented m...   Art
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he mi...  
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chan...  
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance ...  
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.  
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Original...  
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.  
Take three quarts of duck's milk.  
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.  
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.  
The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived ...  
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you should...  
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.  
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellec...  
The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.  
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about ...  
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or wit...  
We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.  
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but ...  
We must believe in free will, we have no choice  
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, ...  
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates...  
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grow...  
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.