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…

Eli: People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious and what wasn’t. We threw away things people kill each other for now.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book – the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as...

She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to...

I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.

So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS?

Why aren’t you afraid of me?”Coy looks at me, baffled. “Why would I be afraid of you?”I shrug, not getting a chance to answer before he continues.”Until the day you start chomping on my throat...

—,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...

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.

Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas.

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to...

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

Don’t read a book to let the time pass…let the time pass to read a book.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I’d use it in a book.

When you go against the flow of nature and betray the spiritual laws existing within, there is, and always will be, a negative reaction. Those who try escaping life before fate shakes their hand, will...

Don’t just create a change for yourself, be a centre of change to others.

The roller coaster is my life; Life is a fast, dizzying game. Life is a parachute jump; it’s taking chances; falling over and getting up again. It’s mountaineering; it’s wanting to get to the very...

Keep moving. Don’t get bogged down. Don’t think about the bad stuff. Smile and joke even when you don’t feel like it.