“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time to write. Simple as that.”

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Time is the thief of memory.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

The art of reading and studying consists of remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man