“History is the nothing people write about a nothing.”

“If we have nothing to write about but nothing to write about, then that is what we have to write about.”

“Write about the experiences that made you feel human. And whatever happens, please do continue to live and write. The people of your own time may not perceive your words, but be cheered by the fact that history has shown that, many times, mankind has learned to love an author, even if their own time thought nothing of them.”

“... "England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions."~ nothing about its people and their steel will or courage, nothing about their history and legacy we share, nothing about the timbre of their values and virtues, just "..”

“A novelist is really nothing more than an historian of a people who have no history.”

“He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about. ”