There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don’t see any evidence that he knew what...

A responsible woman is one who sees opportunities of service and responds to them quickly. In her dwells the ability to see and respond to opportunities.

The gold of life is for those bold and brave in life.

I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read,” a third reader says, “but at every rereading I seem to be reading a new book, for the first time. Is it...

There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I’m g-lyn and I addictive to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across lightly texture paper. My eyes squint against the lost of time within...

As a fan of Agatha Christie, I think a brilliant mystery novel would be trying to identify the meat contents in a McDonald’s hamburger.

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

I am never alone, the pages of a book keeps my mind occupied.

Like calls to like

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it’s supposed to.

Skulle det vara roligt, det där att skriva? Det visste han inte om han tyckte. Efter fem koppar te, två soppåsar med hopknycklade papper och en väldig massa kliande i håret med en nyvässad blyertspenna,...

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it’s a historical novel. If it’s west of the Mississippi, it’s a western, a different category. There’s no...

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

Deux choses donnent du sens à la vie : les livres et l’amour.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.

The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book...

For starters, let’s dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg – sorry – for a good book on the subject, or similar tasteless – sorry,...

Books were safer than other people anyway.

I don’t think I was strong in life. Now it seems like I loved every moment, thatevery breath was charmed and crisp.

I guess another message I’d like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail… I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I’d get to...

What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith’s revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it is that the book containing them is so new. When it comes to...

Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.

Everything we encounter can have a positive influence in shaping our life when we adopt a lens of Gratitude.

Aku baca buku karena aku suka, bukan karena aku mengharap suatu penilaian dari orang-orang di sekitar aku. Bukan karena aku ingin dianggap hebat atau pintar atau berpendidikan atau beradab cuma karena udah baca sebuah karya...

My first book was the book that changed my life.

‘Courtney’ is a more punk-rock kids’ book. It has this precious veneer that Courtney’s terrible behavior trashes. And it’s basically about how miserable it is being in junior high, watching your childhood fantasies vanish, realizing...

It’s easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can’t refuse to write a fantasy. That’s a good thing. I have to pay my mortgage, and...

‘London’ is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the...

If I like a book, I tend to read the author’s entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

What I like about the third movie is you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven’t seen before. You actually get to see what his vampire capabilities are because there’s some great battle...

But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn’t matter here. What matters is what you’ve got in your gut.

I’ve always wanted to have a book published – it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

My books hold between their covers every story I’ve ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

The stories are not made, they are discovered.

Turning a manuscript into a book is easy; getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.

I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.

Be the same person- with or without money.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

Your thought should be creative and not destructive; it should be full of hope and faith for a more excellent future.

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

I used to love lulling, running water – a sound so infrequent in cityscapes. Its loss always made me feel lonely when I lived amongst concrete.

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools,...

There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Life is paradoxical, but I believe that I could also be the same person I am today, if life would have cut me with happiness instead of pain.

A world without books would be a world not worth living in.