If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don’t...

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called ‘Rule Of The Bone.’ I didn’t do a very good job. I...

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go ‘Oh My God, that’s the reason that happened.’ Writing about it, you’re forced to really examine things.

It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life–be she a genteel lady or a serving girl–might find a happier home within the pages of a book.

Gratitude is not just a word; it is a way a of life.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their...

Our lives aren’t just measured in years. They’re measured in the lives of people we touch around us

I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through...

It’s going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that’s the issue: they come against the Lord Jesus Christ. And in this new book, we show Christ...

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the...

As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it’s our literary heritage that is at risk – a vital part of our culture.

Don’t quit because it’s hard. Quit because it’s not hard enough

When I lost you…my world darkened beyond any known shade of black, and the only light that I have seen since is you…

A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn’t tell it like it was,...

It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon…

You’re absolutely insane, that much I’m certain of, but it’s one of the many things I love about you.

Will: I’ve never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You’d think they were diamonds.Tessa: Well, they are, aren’t they? Isn’t there anything you love like that?

Money. It fits around your neck like some permanent noose. always waiting for your next misstep.

The sight washed over me like a damn wave that you never see coming until it’s too late and you’re face down eating sand.

When you meet someone for the first time, that’s not the whole book. That’s just the first page.

Use the powerful tool of thought and develop your mindset to believing and knowing you can change anything to your favour; yes, you have God`s Word so fashion your thought according to God`s Word.

Books are a treasured friend, however it’s difficult to explain it to a non-reader.

I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floating about. I don’t read it for legal reasons, but I’m thrilled to know it’s there....

School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able,...

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.

…she was so exhausted and tired, so overwhelmed, that she needed a Red Bull, to calm down and fall asleep.

My book has no plot. Wait, yes it does—in the cemetery. It’s a love story where one character is dead, and the other is a dirty pervert.

Discovering the ‘impossible’ ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.

The Book of Revelation is such a dream landscape that you can plug any major conflict in it.

Eschew evil and it`s machinations.

A good book is a true friend who never betrays.

Peter Rabbit’s not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit’s position.

I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I’m not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don’t bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I’m not a book-club style reader. I’m...

…Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times… …Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on… Quote on the Title Page of “Love TORN Asunder

Ultimately, the universe doesn’t care about us. Time doesn’t care about us. That’s why we have to care about each other.

The time when you wish if death was possible from a heartbreak

… isn’t breaking a supervillian out of jail a little … much?

Children simply don’t make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

You’re going on birth control…or I will smash your truck-Allison Young

I feel like if I’m going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you’re buying...

A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!

Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak.

My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There’s a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you’re doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The...

Thinking about all the authors I love who wrote flawed books. You authors are such an enigma to me. Why do I love you so much?

…I suppose clichés wouldn’t be clichés if they weren’t based on some sort of tediously predictable truth.

I struggled to kick the habit – I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I couldn’t resist the urge to steal a smoke. It was at that time that...

I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.