One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end u...
A story is alive, as you and I are. It is rounded by muscle and sinew. Rushed with blood. Layered with skin, both rough and smooth. At its core lies soft marrow of hard, white bone. A story beats with...
To be a great warrior is not enough. Flesh and blood, however skilled, can be destroyed... you must be more than just a man in minds of your opponents.
You haven't rewarded evil unto them who were at peace with you; nor you have delivered them that without cause is your enemy. But they want to tread down your soul upon the earth, and lay your honour...
Your whole being is deeply troubled- personified the vision of a child's purity, lost in the wilderness of an ever-unchanging and imperfect world.
Focus on the end, not the beginning- on the beginning not the end- The process proceeds in the inner dimension.
Hear about the hidden time. Some think the hidden time is yet to come. The Kingdom of God does not come by Observation. It is hidden in the inner dimension.
When The Pyramid falls, the other cities will follow in short order. Nature's balance will be restored and Man will finally return to solitude.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen.
Act correctly. Incorrect action cannot be justified by incorrect action. An incorrect action taken to cover an incorrect action is doubly incorrect.
You are judged more by what you do passively than by what you do actively. If one billion of you watch and do not intercede as one million of you assent to the one thousand who participate in the murd...
Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.
There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Un lettore non vede veramente i personaggi di una storia. Li sente.