I don’t understand this irony – valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn’t dated.

Game… Set… Match Bitch! ~Alexandria Bell

But more importantly in my book of life, it’s what you can’t buy with money that is often more important than what you can buy.

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred...

He had gone again and, emboldened by his first successful trip, had chosen a different sort of world to enter, that of THE MONK. He had studied the book with great care and finally selected...

—,Puede una mariposa nocturna alejarse de la luz que será su perdición? ,Deja de acercarse de nuevo, cada vez que retrocede un instante al notar que se abrasa?—Tú tienes más cerebro que uno de esos...

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

Right now, in this dusty anti-paradise, I have absolutely no hand in the future at all.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

Kitabu cha ‘Kolonia Santita’ ni kitabu cha wasomi na wasiokuwa wasomi, watu wa mijini na watu wa vijijini, watu wazima, vijana na watoto. Hadhira ya kitabu hiki ni jamii nzima ya Tanzania.

She must have been very anxious about a first boy friend to fall in love with a Colgate boy

– Io non potrò mai darti quel genere di sensazioni, mi dispiace.– Ed io non le voglio … perché ho capito che è facile innamorarsi di un mito. Chi non s’innamorerebbe di un attore bello...

While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book.

Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.

God wants all man’s attention, thoughts and focus to be on Him.

Life is beautiful if you take the best option.

Ladies, get confident bout yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man will adore you for life.

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don’t want to be writers. They want to have been writers....

Love, it’s overrated in my book. Really, in my book I gave it 11 out of 10 stars. But stars are like political votes. Who’s really counting?

The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing....

Hearing that the same men who brought us ‘South Park’ were mounting a musical to be called ‘The Book of Mormon,’ we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

nights and days came and passedand summer and winterand the sun and the windand the rain.and it was good to be a little islanda part of the worldand a world of its ownall surrounded by...

It’s risky most of the time, but its better to listen to your heart.

al indicado” ese que es el correcto para ti, con esos defectos que son simplemente perfectos para alguien como tú.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn’t contain a single idea.

Made to observe the vastness of our world, the greater breadth and depth of stars unfurled, the mind can grasp an order and a plan and ponder the deep question, “Who is man?

Step inside your favorite storybook and become lost in a journey only your imagination can envision.

And go we all must, with a healthy lust of books we trust.

Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center.

hic sacra domus carique penates, hic mihi Roma fuit.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

If you fail to report within the next 12 hours. you will be terminated. If you attack any humans, you will be terminated. If you attempt to remove the tracking device, you will be terminated....

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

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.