We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them..

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!.

That's all it took to solve problems - just sense..

She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you c….

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest t….

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was pat….

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all….

It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am ….

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality..

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal..

A book is a friend. You can never have too many..

He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned….

I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons a….

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day..

The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails..

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it.

Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artisti….

Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard some….

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come..

Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I….

Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me..