People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.
None of this can actually be happening. If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think of it as metaphor. Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream a hope, a woman,...
No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.
Names come and names go.
Libraries are about Freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about e...
It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.
It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.
It begins, as most things begin, with a song. In the beginning, after all, were the words, and they came with a tune. That was how the world was made, how the void was divided, how the lands and the s...
If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count today and those words aren’t going to wait f...
If there is a moral to this part of the story, and I distrust morals in the same way that I distrust beginnings, it is simply this: know that with which you deal.
If Hell is other people... then Purgatory is airports.
I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.
I believe I have the right to think and say the wrong things. I believe your remedy for that should be to argue with me or to ignore me, and that I should have the same remedy for the wrong things tha...
I am the most miserable person who ever lived, he said... You are young, and in love, said Primus. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.
How old are you?About fifteen, I think. Though I still feel the same as I always did, Bod said, but Mother Slaughter interrupted, And I still feels like I done when I was a tiny slip of a thing, makin...
And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...
America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.
Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.
A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.