Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

Any self-defense class worth its salt will tell you thatyou don’t pull out a weapon unless you intend to use it.The same should apply to ballsy remarks.

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

Maybe ‘Okay’ will be our ‘always’…

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I’m done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It’s hard to be patient and wait.

I would rather be without money than to be without the book I love to read.

Book:Sharing of life and experiences with other people.This is lifetime notes for all generations.

One’s head is finite. You pour more and more things into it – surnames, chronologies, affiliations – and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about...

The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of schizophrenia down, and I want to put down the stigma surrounding...

You’re forgetting… we never get in trouble in that class. Remember I gave Mr. Hendry that lap dance last year. I’m thinking he’s expecting one this year as well. – Carol

If a lioness spends her hours pacing back and forth in a cage of gold with the finest meats at her disposal, does that make her any less of a prisoner? If that same feline’s...

When I get close to an election, I look to ‘Lamar Alexander’s Little Plaid Book’ for inspiration.

I always thought ‘love at first sight’ was silly and incredibly irresponsible. Then, you came along and you flipped it on me. I understand it now. I do! ~Sheriff Derrick Decker

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world’s friend.

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

I think it all basically breaks down to something like this: You have to look and feel great first. If you eat well, exercise and get enough sleep, you will have ample energy and the...

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps...

I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a ‘puff’ for a book I truly love.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations – such is a pleasure beyond compare.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

Whereas the Xerox researcher “was eager to juggle multiple threads of work simultaneously,” the skeptical questioner viewed his own work “as an exercise in solitary, singleminded concentration.” In the choices we have made, consciously or...

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I’ve spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine,...

The strong are suppose to protect the weak and sometimes the strong are the weak.

A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

Emma is just a distraction. A shiny new toy that I can’t have, so I want her. Fuck, do I ever want her.” – William Honor (Honor Thy Teacher)

Rainbows are said to be beautiful!Rainbows are said to be colourful!Rainbows may possibly be magical!But, I have never seen a rainbow appearing in the sky!

Get up, and wipe your lip, Camille. It seems you are bleeding.

There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, ‘Story of a Girl’, was the fourth book I wrote.

A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world.

It’s always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.

For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.

A book or an article is of readable quality only by the quantity of the words’ honesty; the rest of its content only makes it a bulky.

When I do a project, I like the idea that someone is going to experience the book, someone is going to experience the film, someone else is going to experience a framed photo on a...

No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a...

I’ll pray for good semen. And I’ll get all of my friends to pray for good semen.

I think I’m a pretty open book. We’re all a work in progress, and I’m not ashamed to say that I don’t have it all together – I don’t really think anyone does.

Learn to handle books, you will learn how to enjoy life.

Isn’t she just Little Miss Sweetness and Light?” – and it was a statement that put him off proposing. It made him seriously reassess his options. He didn’t want to be with someone others saw...

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it, yes, but don’t read it. [Regarding “The Fool’s Progress”]

If I stay close to the sea, I will go on well.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Your life isn’t about doing one perfect ‘thing’ and then falling down dead. It’s more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little...

When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown.

Your decision not to join the crowd may be what God is waiting for to grant you revelation on how to deliver your family, your country, business, profession or even your church!

Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.

Confidence thrills men for it means you won’t be fidgety or excessively jealous when the man is in the midst of people especially those of opposite sex.

I know the bestseller ‘Gone Girl’ doesn’t need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty as they come.