I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply “there is a book.

My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I’ve already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it’s God will.

Mostrare la propria libreria è come far entrare un estraneo nell’intimità. È come raccontare dei propri flirt. Una cosa da evitare.

One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.

That’s what our country needs – more books and far more readers.

I’d always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice.

I write to get ideas out of my head

On to the library. And all through his time at the card catalog, combing the shelves, filling out the request cards, he danced a silent, flirtatious minuet of the eyes with a rosy-cheeked redhead in...

His bedroom was a reflection of Bryant’s mind, its untidy shelves filled with games and puzzles stacked in ancient boxes, statues and mementoes competing for space with books on every subject imaginable, from Sensation and...

It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that there are no race of people who talk about books, or,...

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.

I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they’d just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn’t translate through sports, or music, dancing,...

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

I’ve always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

Books are like truth serum– if you don’t read, you can’t figure out what’s real.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

Knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Reading takes the reader to faraway lands, new cultures, new and exciting adventures; you meet new friends and enemies; it takes the reader from the heights of the imagination to the depths of human emotions;...

I believe that everyone should have a dream and believe in it. Make it real, bring it to life. You’ll never regret trying. Trying is what strengthens your heart and delivers courage. Once you believe...

Because when I read, I don’t really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in...

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet,How sweet his music! on my life,There’s more of wisdom in it.

‎”Based on a true story”? No, thanks. I prefer “based on a true imagination”.

Finding your passion is the key to your success. – Tracy Kauffman

Evan ran his finger across the faded leather spines. He laughed at how silly some of the names were: Paint Your Roses Red, Edelweiss and Me, World of Mushrooms and Fungi, The Toadstool Diaries, Daffodils...

And one of the reasons that I wrote the cook books was so that I could be at home more than being on the road.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

He loved books like that, and telly, and films. He loved stuff where there was a Chosen One, a special person, a hero, and he loved to imagine that one day things like that would...

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

All I’m saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they’re even more important.

I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about...

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us...

She took a deep breath, “Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?” His expression turned very strange, almost as if she’d struck him, “yes,” he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page chapter 5

To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages blank; make some marks there. Many people are reading you.

Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering the water table of wisdom.

Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person

A house without books is like a room without windows.

What experience cannot teach you now, mentors and books can foretell! To take the lead in whatever you do, be willing to learn and educate yourself regularly!

Conversations.” Of course, it’s all talk at this point.

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or...

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Me and my readers, we’re on the same page. That page is one.

Books; I repeat, for they’ve not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people’s ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles, their dreams…..their...

I’d experienced the ’40s and ’50s by looking at my grandparents’ old clothes, books, and magazines.

Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic....

I went through and underlined all the funny lines in his book, and by the time I was done, I had underlined his whole book. That would be great if he wrote a humor book,...