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My master's degree was in English literature.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as I can tell - because it's part of life itself. In the world of the hamburger stand and the supermarket, or the vegan café and the ashram, you might try to tell yourself it's possible to be nonviolent. In a hunting and gathering society, violence is more difficult to hide.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

My stories are never quite good enough

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Never find fault with the absent.

Never pursue literature as a trade.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

Never try to leap from a standstill.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.