Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

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.

Only the nonreader fears books.

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.

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.

Why do people always want to put their hands on vulnerability? I sped up.

Whenever there is chaos it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

I just feel really grateful that I can pursue my dreams and also reach people in ways that I never expected.

The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.

You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks.

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.