I’m ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!Ok one more… But then you have to read to me!

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

I want to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn’t planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.

Passion for knowledge, motivation for continuous learning.

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It’s something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you’re going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you...

The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn’t change the pressure. I never feel...

At the sight of a good book, you just can’t walk away but to claim and read it.

We, and I think I’m speaking for many writers, don’t know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day,...

Now you be careful in the real world” said Armpit ” Not everyone is as nice as us.

I’m addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things – being able to buy a book on the internet that you can’t find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline...

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn’t going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds...

Don’t run around looking for someone who can sexually satisfy you, run around and look for the book which will intellectually satisfy you.

Two halves of the same whole.They cannot live together, yetcannot die apart.

Although many things may still need to happen before you identify what your exact work will be, I know that every single person whom you’re meeting and every experience that you’re having is necessary to...

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

Only a foolish soul would love the stars. As beautiful as they are, they will burn you. Regardless of your best intentions.

Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together.

When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side,...

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

A glorious death would be in myfinal breath to take before I die, to hearone final time on my belovèd’s mouththe sound of her eternal sigh.

Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.

Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even people who aren’t hateful per se assume they won’t get anything from a...

Things change, friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.

With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues.

Non avevano imparato nulla dai loro errori, se non a portare la crudeltà a un nuovo livello di brutale raffinatezza.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have...

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...

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....