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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.