I gave people who didn’t know what to say the best advice I could muster, which was that it was better to say anything rather than pretend that nothing was wrong.
I do believe that my Holy Grail of books could be out there—and I intend to keep reading until I find it. Of course, I'll keep reading after I do, too, because—well, because I love to read. I also bel...
He remains for my family the perfect model of how you can be gone but ever present in the lives of people who loved you, in the same way that your favorite books stay with you for your entire life, no...
Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought refuge in a book. Books focused her mind, calmed her, took h...
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a novel by a thirty-seven-year-old author, Mohsin Hamid,
I used to say that the greatest gift you could ever give anyone is a book. But I don't say that anymore because I no longer think it's true. I now say that a book is the second greatest gift. I've com...
Everyone doesn't have to do everything... People forget you can also express yourself by what you choose to admire and support. I've had so much pleasure from beautiful and challenging things created...
But people can be cruel in lots of ways, some very subtle.
There’s something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don’t know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.
We’d both already read several novels by Tóibín: The Master and The Story of Night and The Blackwater Lightship.
That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.
She always read the end of a book first because she couldn’t wait to find out how things would turn out.
I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to...
His point: you don’t have to travel the world to see the ways we mistreat one another; it’s as close as the street outside our windows.
Freedom can still depend on ink, just as it always has.
Every year pancreatic cancer kills more than 35,000 people in America—it’s the fourth leading cause of cancer death.
A Thousand Splendid Suns, the new book by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.
The book, Lamott says the two best prayers are Help me, Help me, Help me and Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
A thank-you note isn’t the price you pay for receiving a gift, as so many children think it is, a kind of minimum tribute or toll, but an opportunity to count your blessings. And gratitude isn’t what...
Well, what were your favorite books? When? As a young girl. Nancy Drew. I read dozens of them. I loved the idea of a girl detective.