…she was so exhausted and tired, so overwhelmed, that she needed a Red Bull, to calm down and fall asleep.

My book has no plot. Wait, yes it does—in the cemetery. It’s a love story where one character is dead, and the other is a dirty pervert.

Discovering the ‘impossible’ ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.

The Book of Revelation is such a dream landscape that you can plug any major conflict in it.

Eschew evil and it`s machinations.

A good book is a true friend who never betrays.

Peter Rabbit’s not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit’s position.

I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I’m not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don’t bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I’m not a book-club style reader. I’m...

…Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times… …Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on… Quote on the Title Page of “Love TORN Asunder

Ultimately, the universe doesn’t care about us. Time doesn’t care about us. That’s why we have to care about each other.

The time when you wish if death was possible from a heartbreak

… isn’t breaking a supervillian out of jail a little … much?

Children simply don’t make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

You’re going on birth control…or I will smash your truck-Allison Young

I feel like if I’m going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you’re buying...

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...

In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.

I feel when a writer treats a character as ‘precious,’ the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There’s nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I...

In ‘The Plato Papers’ I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there’s a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in...

I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don’t have their hands open, there’s...

For every question, there is a book.

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Maltese Falcon,’ that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer,...

Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don’t read much.

The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old.

I can’t believe I wrote that many words in a row.

Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

Choose your thoughts, carve them in your mind and fix your gaze on them always.

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank...