Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre.
Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and...
When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven an...
I believe my life has a value, and i don't want to waste it thinking about clothing.I don't want to think about what i will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashio...
I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle showed up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks ar...
That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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.
Books are humanity in print.
She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.
It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
The young need discipline and a full bookcase.
Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can ma...
No two persons ever read the same book.
Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.
Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.
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