In ‘The Plato Papers’ I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there’s a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in...

I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don’t have their hands open, there’s...

For every question, there is a book.

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Maltese Falcon,’ that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer,...

Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don’t read much.

The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old.

I can’t believe I wrote that many words in a row.

Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

Choose your thoughts, carve them in your mind and fix your gaze on them always.

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.

He swatted at her with his book. “Shut up and read, will you?”He lay back down and closed his eyes. Emma glanced over to check that he was smiling, and smiled too.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before...

Have you never picked up a book you’ve read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?

Now, go, wirte it before them in a table and note it in a book, that it may be fore the time to come for ever and ever. Isiah 30:8

I think a lot of people saw ‘Fight Club’ and thought, ‘Right, here’s our next Che Guevara, here’s our next Fidel Castro, here’s someone who’s going to wave the flag.’ And I was like, ‘No,...

Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness.

Man is like a bride unto God. God is jealous when man veers away from Him.

Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.

You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with you.

When I write a book… it’s the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that’s the only...

When ‘Catch Me If You Can’ was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What’s amazing about...

Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book ‘Crush It!’? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it...

The term ‘epitaph’ itself means ‘something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.’ When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware...

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly then all at once

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves...

Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.

We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.

La vida es hermosa porque no es perfecta, esa es exactamente la razón por la que es todo lo que necesitas.No preguntas ,por qué? Sólo esperas y ves, te preguntas para qué y cuando lo...

Being influential is not the mark of a great book.

if you learn to hate one or two persons… you’ll soon hate millions of people.

I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.

Books, an addiction for the soul…

As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.

God is the only book that can never be touched, open and seen.

Being a Dream Girl is never going to be about what you look like or how much you weigh. After all, our physical appearances are just reflections of our inner worlds. What makes you a...

I hate the vamp jobs. They think they’re so suave. It’s not enough for them to slaughter and eat you like a zombie would. No, they want to be all sexy, too. And trust me:...

Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it’s an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I’ll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for...

When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.

When you’re writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer...

Reading…inspires,enlightens,nurtures,refines,educates,informs,transforms,persuades,challenges,engages, entertains,mesmerizes,captivates,gratifies,rewards,quiets,and calms.Granted, it won’t get the dishes done,but sacrifices must be made.

She said, ‘It is filled with all the words for how I want you.

The people that surround us mirror who we are.

I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‘Crime and Punishment’. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‘If this...

Remember, a book is always a gift.