That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get ki….

If you're an open book, there's no allure..

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspira….

Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them..

There was a woman on the radio the other day who had wrote a book about how difficult it was in meetings once you're a working mother. She was like "….

When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the books I am reading, personal events, inf….

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the….

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate e….

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive..

I think everyone should read The Girl on The Train, especially if they loved Gone Girl. It's about Rachel, a girl who sees a couple on her commute. T….

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends..

No plasticity exists in the Quran. This book is believed by Muslims to be the verbatim words of God. How can you change the word of God? Other religi….

I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore..

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death..

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an un….

I'm just taking one match at a time..

"The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last yea….

There's no image we can't improve..

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world..

There are books in rivulets and sermons in stones. You can gather lessons from everything. If a man does nothing whatsoever he recedes into his own s….

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have though….