One of the joys of a really good book is that you’re so into the world of the book, you forget what you’re looking at is words on a page.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn’t the thing to be seen doing – reading a book in your spare time.

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

‘XIII’ is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to ‘The Bourne Identity.’ I tried to take it away from that. I believe there was, many years ago, before...

A book, child. A book just for you, in a lost language.

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice – read books.

The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.

This thing we have, it hurts, he continued. But the pain is almost sweet because it means YOU happened. We happened. And I can’t regret that, no matter how little or how long I get...

I promise to dream with you both great dreams and small dreams. To ask your counsel in times of uncertainty. To honor your silence when you seek to be alone. To be ever wondrous at...

I’m usually a bit awkward in houses that I haven’t been to before, so it’s a way to not look weird. If I find something I’ve read before it automatically makes me more comfortable.

My criteria for what makes a book an official ‘favorite,’ is based almost entirely on how desperately I don’t want the story to end.

Live on your good thoughts and they will manifest outwardly.

Nearly two years of dates. Still no question. Her mother and father want to set a proper date. Still no question. Her friends keep asking, when, Natasha? When? But she still hasn’t been asked The...

I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I’m just trying to earn a living. So buy this book – or my kids will have to go to foster care.

I’m reading a book, because I’m brainy. No, it is a book – if you don’t know, it is like a blog except bigger.

I’d heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just loved it. Me and my sister shared a bedroom, and every night I’d drive her...

No book can truly be original, but there are always way to make it unique.

If I can write it, I can cope. And I’ve been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to...

Owning a book is a third of the goal. The others are actually reading it and applying it.

I despair of ever getting it through anybody’s head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what’s written in the books. I don’t browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you...

Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone; it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you.

I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It’s so dense; it’s so complex and puzzling. But then I found I was thinking about a number of themes, one of which has...

Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.

What you think and how you think, influences what you ink and how you ink.

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.

There’s no better way to get to know a city than to walk its streets. A place will reveal its soul through its sights, sounds and smells, and eventually, it’ll teach you its rhythm.

Vision involves more than just seeing or being shown.

Getting married early is like wrestling with calculus on a merry trip to Las Vegas!

Be kind and considerate with your criticism… It’s just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

When you say ‘comic book’ in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.

Your mind is your library of what you read.

Do you miss being friends with Santangelo?” I ask her after the lights are out and we’re almost asleep.”What makes you think were friends?””Everything.”I hear her yawn.”Being enemies with him is better.” she tells me....

I’m the sexiest of them all! – Carol

The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday.

Moorcock’s interlinked ‘Eternal Champion’ series is a constant source of enjoyment. Of its tragic hero incarnations, my favourite is ‘Elric of Melnibone,’ and the best book has to be ‘Stormbringer.’ And as for that other...

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

Sometimes when I’m really enjoying a book, I’ll read a sentence or paragraph and just think – how can someone’s head be wired in such a way that they’d come up with that?

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it’s a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They’re going to read one...

Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.

I believe the meaning of life is the relationships we have with each other.”

She stood up and took the book from him, and as he smiled over his shoulder at some other kids, she threw it away and kicked him as hard as she could in the vicinity...

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

Un livre est un peu de silence entre les mains du lecteur.Celui qui écrit calme.Celui qui le lit ne rompt pas le silence.

Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It’s no different in the financial realm

The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.

To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry, and for them to have sold in the numbers they have – and...

I’m considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms.

the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved