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

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.

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.

Your life is an opportunity to question, discover, and explore.

General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll make a good impression on the enemy when they're shot down".

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

TM® is helping you tap into something that's already inside of you - that's you in essence.

To be loved by God is the highest relationship.

Modesty is of no use to a beggar.

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.

My makeup is usually left over from the night before.

Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.” Grace: “I’m not looking for self-control.

Making [Pineapple Express] was a blast. I'd kind of gotten to the point professionally where I was pretty emotionally exhausted from making dramatic films.