I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine… before she realizes she’s reading.

I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you.

Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by how much they have read, how creatively they think and how...

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.

If you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of...

Each record in the ‘Book of Angels’ series is meant to be unique in terms of the compositions.

[…] marginile unei cărţi nu sunt niciodată clar şi riguros trasate: dincolo de titlu, de primele r nduri şi de punctul final, mai presus de configuraţia sa internă şi de forma care îi conferă autonomie,...

Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It’s how I feel after a good dinner. That’s why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind...

After the bitching I’d done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin City.

Without love, life was nothing but endless tasks and battles.

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it’s very clear.

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read ‘Crime and Punishment,’ and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a...

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

Crazy people. They never think they’re crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them.

A picture’s worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories.

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and letting her glance fall naturally on a patch of earth which,...

Back in my days as a children’s book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop...

Just because you see bad contents in few pages of the bookIt doesn’t mean the whole contents in that book are bad too

Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you’ve had a prior training in book culture.

Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy – all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a...

Be generous with your life – love deeply, honestly, and without reservation.

You deserve good sperm. You’ve waited a long time.

I think it’s counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.

You can cream your dream by enriching your thought with clean and desirable things.

I see… the way you’re always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you’re older than your years, but still… playful, like a little girl. How you’re always looking into people, or...

People love books because they’re searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions – and books get as close as it’s possible to get.

And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story...

If you write a book that’s as powerful and successful as ‘Bastard,’ there’s a strong desire to prove there’s something else.

I cry at the end of every book.

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: ‘No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.’ My husband is a writer of...

30% of the time I am successful 70% of the time. That’s 100% in my book—a book that happens to have a page count that’s 21% Reduced Fat.

Remember iron sharpens iron. People inspire people, therefore, always ensure that you read books that can easily guide you to discover strategies of making a good name.

You recreate your world to your taste with God’s Word in your mouth.

Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.

Don`t descend to the lowest ebb.

Can’t you see? I am making all sorts of friends.

When somebody says, ‘This must be a children’s book,’ basically they’re saying, ‘You must be a child.’ And so my answer is, ‘Well, yes, I guess I am a child.’ But I don’t think of...

Never judge the othersfor each one wears a coverfor their version of the original.(talking about individuals in the stream of consciousness that gives rise to each one of us.)

Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.

I dare us to give up – maybe we’ll reach nirvana by the time we’re sixty.

f you are ready to cry..to feel the pain..to take the risk? You are ready for love

I’d rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

Be a reader for a lifetime. Read, read more!

The world of books captured my heart.

Books make my world complete.

I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.

My Friends I Will Always Remember, And My Enemies I Will Never Forget!

The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasn’t love, but gratitude.