One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched..

I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains..

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educator….

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author..

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind..

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book..

There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I wa….

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book..

I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put out in the first two books. You finally let p….

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind..

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it.

I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience..

The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever..

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope..

Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled there, incl….

The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder... What power spiritual reading has to lead to a change of course, ….

I wonder if books become in essence "files" if people wouldn't write them differently. I'm used to writing print books and I enjoy the slowness of th….

In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse othe….

Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most or….

If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard..

A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one ….