A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others.

Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family.

Every pause is a precursor to new thoughts, every thought is potentially a new story, every story is a new interpretation and every interpretation is a new shade of grey.

How easy it is to do wrong when there is someone else to blame.

I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos.

Some certified nut Will try to tell you it's poetry, (It's extraordinary, it makes a great deal of sense) But watch out or he'll start with some New notion or other.

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.

I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.

Why did the reindeer wear black boots? Because his brown ones were all muddy!