I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.

our finger prints dont fade from the lives we touch

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.

We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?

The truth will make you odd.

Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.

She was so wound up that she reacted before she thought twice about it and stabbed him. "Damnit" he said between clenched teeth. His fingers tightyened around her wrist. "Stop doing that.

There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.

You really have a bad habit of falling, " he remarked.Falling for you, Amarissa thought.

The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.