it takes a village to build success in publishing a book – it takes friends that are willing to help – it takes hours upon hours of no’s to get to a yes, it takes...

People who make snide comments to authors like “anyone can write a book” or “well, you did it, so obviously I can/it can’t be that hard” or poke at a book because it’s “romance” or...

Every book has it’s destiny, Like a human life , Sometime when an Author is dead the destiny of the book begins” The days of Childhood !!!!!

They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, ‘Paint it this color!’

Beware of the person of one book.

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when...

A lot of people who read my novel ‘Smog City’ ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it’s because I’ve given them life. Not literally of...

That’s the thing: once it’s in their hands, it’s not my book anymore, it’s theirs. I have no idea what happens when they start to digest it. So when someone writes me to explain how...

Some things don’t last forever, but some things do. Like a good book, a good song, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest time.

I’d love a signed first edition of ‘City of Glass’ by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time.

Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it’s fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I’ve healed very well.

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading — once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive — is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a...

I’m trying to convey to my audience that you really can’t judge a book by its cover, and there’s more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long time. They don’t see things the way we do.

As I see it, you GET married – but you MAKE a marriage.

So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.

…Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

When your thought is right, your imaginations will be colourful; you will then dream and not have nightmares!

A great book is one, which really don’t finish when it finishes.

In the dark, neglected gutter running the length of a nearby secluded side street lies a small, lifeless bird. This is the blackcap – the unaccustomed northern nightingale – a creature with a charcoal greyness...

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

You cannot know what light isif you have not experienced darkness.How could you know what happiness feels likeif you know not what it means to be sad?Right does not exist without wrongHate exists because there...

We are different, my friend. We are visionaries. A monkey looks up and sees and banana, and that is as far as he looks. But a visionary looks up and sees the moon.

Where’s your church?””We’re standing in it.””But this is a bookstore and it’s a Friday.””Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum...

I’m a book lover. I’ve probably already fucked a whole library.

Don’t take purposeless people as your leaders. Their life is like an empty book with a nice cover paper and you have attempted to buy it. Of which use will it be to you for...

Create your world with God’s Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!

Desire to give and not always receive.

In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness.

The greatest tragedy to ever happen to a nation is not the incidences of war or terrorism. It’s when more bookshops close down and more drinking bars are opened to replace them!

Love is the action verb of life, and of the heart.

He went through rooms he named as he discovered them, and which he hardly had time to appreciate before he’d flung open a door at the far end and plunged through. . . . and...

People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them.

Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!

sometimes being silent is the best way to appreciate the moment

I thought that to get to know a desert it was enough to have been there. I thought that to have seen the dogs dying along the Cholula road, or to have seen the eyes...

I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!

Good books makes good life.

He took my hand, made me stand on the branch and asked, “What can you see from here?” “Nothing” I said,”Know what I can see? From this distance everything is so bloody perfect”.

I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for...

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn’t believe me, or didn’t want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very...

We are all the same and we are all different. What great friends we will be.

When I started out, I didn’t have any writing routine, I had a job. Writing was a hobby I indulged in over the weekends or in the evening when I wasn’t too knackered, watching TV,...

. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.

‘The Blade Itself’ was my first book. Probably I should’ve tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.

You know that book ‘Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking’, by Susan Cain? That’s like my manifesto. The older I get, the more I think I could be a...

Your MY first girlfriend I ever hadYour MY first boyfriend I ever had

This book is the book you have just read. It’s done.

I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations. Please, trust me. I most definitely can be cheerful....

Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit – There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.