Words worth keeping

साहित्य समाज का दर्पण है।

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

The VoiceThere is a voice inside of youThat whispers all day long,"I feel this is right for me,I know that this is wrong."No teacher, preacher, parent, friendOr wise man can decideWhat's right for you--just listen toThe voice that speaks inside.

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.