“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

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.

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

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.

Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman’s got to hold on to.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.

The public library is more than a repository of books. It’s a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.

One thing that makes me prefer people over books is shared laughter.

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.