There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial...
Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.
My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.
Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor... at something doesn't collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all th...
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.
Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're...
All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books.
A dictionary should be descriptive not prescriptive.
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
We could have all been killed -or worse, expelled.
No one's book is perfect.
Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.
I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.
There are so many wonderful places created in my mind simply from the books I have read, I have been transported to some unforgettable, magic places but there are so many more I wish to visit and so l...
Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a city of unstable skyscrapers, and he was the window-washer tasked with the impossible jo...
I love digging myself into books because the moment I'm drifted from reality, I'm in a different world and I'm a different person.
The point is, every book we had could save us in a different way -- only, we had to open it. We had to drop our eyes to the page and drink in the words that were there.
If you read stories, you will learn the valuable lessons of life situations, survival and build strength.