If you need a handbook for praise and worship, read Psalms.

P.S. Please give my love to Tink, she always was such a funny little bug

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see...

I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.

Sometimes you have to let go a little bit and travel the path of least resistance but this doesn’t mean that you quit when things get tough, as you are working towards a goal! It...

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

Hair the color of lemons,'” Rudy read. His fingers touched the words. “You told him about me?”At first, Liesel could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or...

The whole of Nature is a book, the heavens a scroll; and they were intended to be used as such.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you...

Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87

Books exceed authors’ lifespan.

It’s time for everybody to start becoming conscious of their conscience.

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.

But the book! The siren song of the book!

My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash...

An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.

I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation...

Shine forth your light before all beings.

Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation.

The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content.

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

I was downstairs, reading.”” Now?” I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared.”Yes, now,” she said. “It’s nice, sometimes, to read in the middle of the night. The sky is so dark...

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you....

Lo que nos hace personas normales es saber que no somos normales.

I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole...

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.

[When] he’s here, he’s always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he’s crazy…Don’t tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and...

Revenge is not a good thing. Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.

Lover of books, lover of knowledge.

I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don’t think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean,...