Only the nonreader fears books.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

Oh the heat of love takes away the chill of yesterdays sorrow and pain

A place with no handholds, no landmarks, no past at all:That would have been too much like dying

They became actual revolutions instead of mere discussions, complaints and rioting, only after revolutionists had beaten, or won over, the armed forces of the government

In government, one actress is enough.

The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.

Our health care is rationed by wealth.

My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.

Nothing is going to happen unless you work with your life's blood.

Is there a spiritual element to creativity? Hell, yes. Our mightiest ally (our indispensable ally) is belief in something we cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or feel.

Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside.