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....

Love, it’s overrated in my book. Really, in my book I gave it 11 out of 10 stars. But stars are like political votes. Who’s really counting?

The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing....

Hearing that the same men who brought us ‘South Park’ were mounting a musical to be called ‘The Book of Mormon,’ we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

nights and days came and passedand summer and winterand the sun and the windand the rain.and it was good to be a little islanda part of the worldand a world of its ownall surrounded by...

It’s risky most of the time, but its better to listen to your heart.

al indicado” ese que es el correcto para ti, con esos defectos que son simplemente perfectos para alguien como tú.

A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!

Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak.

My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There’s a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you’re doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The...

Thinking about all the authors I love who wrote flawed books. You authors are such an enigma to me. Why do I love you so much?

…I suppose clichés wouldn’t be clichés if they weren’t based on some sort of tediously predictable truth.

I struggled to kick the habit – I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I couldn’t resist the urge to steal a smoke. It was at that time that...

I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.

Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas.

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to...

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

Don’t read a book to let the time pass…let the time pass to read a book.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I’d use it in a book.

When you go against the flow of nature and betray the spiritual laws existing within, there is, and always will be, a negative reaction. Those who try escaping life before fate shakes their hand, will...

Don’t just create a change for yourself, be a centre of change to others.

The roller coaster is my life; Life is a fast, dizzying game. Life is a parachute jump; it’s taking chances; falling over and getting up again. It’s mountaineering; it’s wanting to get to the very...

Keep moving. Don’t get bogged down. Don’t think about the bad stuff. Smile and joke even when you don’t feel like it.

And then … perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story...

The book is a key to open the human

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned–in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?