Walking into a bookshop is a depressing thing. It’s not the pretentious twats, browsing books as part of their desirable lifestyle. It’s not the scrubby members of staff serving at the counter: the pseudo-hippies and...

I know the Bible pretty well. I’m not one of those guys who can immediately start quoting every book, but usually I know where to look to find certain themes.

People need books for a better life. Books are a way of self-nurturing.

The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She’s both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I’m not.

Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‘Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.’...

Look at your past… you should hate yourself way more than you actually do!”?Welcome to your Little Monster.

Benim için kitap okurken hala önemli olan anlamaktan çok, okuduğum şeye uygun düşler kurmaktır.

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.

The society in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Time machines, magic portals, transporters, worm holes, flying carpets, relocation charms—such things do exist. They’re called books.

Dr. Peter Boghossian’s A Manual for Creating Atheists is a precise, passionate, compassionate and brilliantly reasoned work that will illuminate any and all minds capable of openness and curiosity. This is not a bedtime story...

As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, ‘Don’t write a book, write a page…Don’t expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well.

Rejection is simply redirection to the greatness awaiting for you.

I had never had a big opinion for myself. I had always thought I’d be a fuck up, that I’d be disappointed like always by life and people. But at this very moment, I knew...

‘Generation Food’ is a collaboration between myself and author/activist Raj Patel that will tell stories about efforts around the world to try to solve the food crisis – through a documentary, a book, a website...

The number of books students read…is among the best indicators of student reading development.

I’m aware of how unprofessional this is and yet I can’t stop myself.

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is...

You do right by me, I’ll show you a life most suckers can’t even dream of.

I know who the real hero is, and it isn’t me or brave Lanaya. It’s an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won’t let him...

Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread.The hunters are hunted, white water runs red.The Gnawers will strike to extinguish the rest.The hope of the hopeless resides in a quest.An Overland warrior, a son of the...

I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn’t really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I’d...

You know you have a gambling problem when it’s 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you’re walking around going, ‘Hey you get the lacrosse scores?’

Sulphurous wind gusted in his wake; the dust of the street swirled and the folds of his black coat flapped against his thin body.

With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.

I LOVE YOU” If said only when you have to?What good is it to ride a horse if you cannot gallop?What good is it to believe in someone if you doubt your own belief?

How do text messages make you feel existential?I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before sending it out to the world. They can make themselves seem more well spoken than...

What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve.

I’m quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I’ve coined a rather hideous word for it – a paraquel.

Everyone has a story within them, let yours out.

In a world of insanity, nothing is sacred. It’s an insane world, nothing is sacred.

That’s what this country needs — more books!

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

Leave him alone!” Debbie shouted.”Shut up, please, or I’ll kill you,” Mr Tiny replied.

Visitors might notice that Jacksonville has lots of trees. And there would be more trees, if I didn’t go around chopping so many down, in anticipation of my upcoming paper company. (I plan on self-publishing...

But I may also be afraid.I am afraid.I have already read it. And, not to lie to you, I liked it. But I am afraid. I am not afraid of you, Fidelia, Sania, Ania. I...

Worship is the marriage of two Spirits – the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man.

Drown those degrading thoughts.

Ride higher in life unto the higher life.

I want to write a book called, “Ten Steps to Asexuality.” Of course, I recommend all those steps be taken in Birkenstock sandals.

I’ve done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I’ve compiled a book of poetry that’s completed, and two others I’m working on.

I like it when you have something happening by coincidence. Just something in a book is enough. But I prefer a fragment of an image so you are far more free to bring in elements...

Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.

Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

The unspoken feeling that engulfs you and smolders you more and more each day…..love!

The Little Friend is a long book. It’s also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

Reading is everything. Read to enrich your world.

A book is a treasure of life.