The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

Sometimes when I’m really enjoying a book, I’ll read a sentence or paragraph and just think – how can someone’s head be wired in such a way that they’d come up with that?

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it’s a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They’re going to read one...

Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.

I believe the meaning of life is the relationships we have with each other.”

She stood up and took the book from him, and as he smiled over his shoulder at some other kids, she threw it away and kicked him as hard as she could in the vicinity...

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

Un livre est un peu de silence entre les mains du lecteur.Celui qui écrit calme.Celui qui le lit ne rompt pas le silence.

Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It’s no different in the financial realm

The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.

To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry, and for them to have sold in the numbers they have – and...

I’m considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms.

the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief… I’m not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable...

I could leave the world of the book enthralled and inspired, but the real world awaited me, to caress or to kick me; reality was a powerful force that could not be ignored.

This little book has been written in the hope that it may appeal to several classes of readers.Not infrequently I have been asked by friends of different callings in life to recommend them some book...

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. “He does not look so mighty lying there,” he said wonderingly. “He does not look so much greater than me.

Buku, bukan hanya sekedar buku. Buku itu seperti jiwa bagiku. Tokoh-tokohnya hidup bersamaku. Buku, pintu menuju ke dunia yang lebih nyata, lebih rasional.

I’d stare up at the sky, reminding myself that Caleb and I were both underneath it. That wherever he was, whatever he was doing, we would always share something.

People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem, I go to my library read the relevant book and provide the solution.

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

Enjoy the RIDE NOW. You’ll be SUCCESSFUL later, however YOU define SUCCESS.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I’ve written.

When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing for 10 people in a 250 people capacity venue. The promoter wanted...

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

It’s unpleasant magic, the kind that darkens the senses, the kind no one wants to experience, but once in a lifetime might not be able to avoid.

Books are an extension of our imagination

… The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper,...

I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together. While your man was simply reading one little book, something not unlike Genesis...

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we...

Stalked He stalks her waiting for the right time, a single purpose stirring within his mind. His soul longs for that one deep connation, as his body seeks its final redemption. For he is the...

There’s a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily.

You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear; you will reach your destination.

Have the best course for all your actions.

A matured woman is therefore a responsible woman irrespective of her age, status and qualification.

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers....

In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.

You must feel it from within. You must want to write the book. You must desire to write the book

You’re cute,” he told her, eyeing her up and down. She was more pale than he was, but it suited her well. Her entire frame was thin, and her face was oval. Her eyes were...

Todos nosotros somos seres imperfectos que vivimos en un mundo imperfecto.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

Just do it. Now.

Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.

If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book...

When I’m writing I don’t want anyone else in the room – including myself.

Because I’ve a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I’m about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.