One Has To Trust That God Knows

Three Characteristics A Work Of Fiction Must Possess In Order To Be Successful: 1. It Must Have A Precise And Suspenseful Plot. 2. The Author Must Feel A Passionate Urge To Write It. 3. He Must Have The Conviction, Or At Least The Illusion, That He Is The Only One Who Can Handle This Particular Theme.

The Very Essence Of Literature Is The War Between Emotion And Intellect, Between Life And Death. When Literature Becomes Too Intellectual - When It Begins To Ignore The Passions, The Emotions - It Becomes Sterile, Silly, And Actually Without Substance.

There Is Great Treasure There Behind Our Skull And This Is True About All Of Us. This Little Treasure Has Great, Great Powers, And I Would Say We Only Have Learnt A Very, Very Small Part Of What It Can Do.

How Can We Speak Of Right And Justice If We Take An Innocent Creature And Shed Its Blood? How Can We Pray To God For Mercy If We Ourselves Have No Mercy? Nobel Laureate In Literature.

Our Knowledge Is A Little Island In A Great Ocean Of Nonknowledge.