Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything..

I think it's very, very, very hard to get a book published. I never want to be one of those teachers that say, 'don't do this, ' because how sad woul….

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book..

A bet is a bet and I always keep my word in the bet what I do..

John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the connections ….

I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different..

Power is intoxicating..

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wo….

The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wro….

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own..

The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness….

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews….

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies whic….

The more the change, the more it is the same thing..

Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes t….

I don't do live things..

We are so much more undiscovered than we are discovered..

I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!.

Abraham Lincoln did have intellectual instincts, a tremendous curiosity on a broad range of subjects, and a near-photographic memory for what he read….

Here's my theory: I think both fiction and role-playing games involve a narrative journey. When that journey never ends, it feeds an addictive cycle.….

It would be a crime against [Twilight] audience to go R-rated... [Yet the rating] is based on a much more mature book [Breaking Dawn,Stephenie Meyer]….