Mice are terribly chatty. They will chat about anything, and if there is nothing to chat about, they will chat about having nothing to chat about. Compared to mice, robins are reserved.

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

There are things you don't want to know you can do

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

With persistent focus, commitment and enthusiasm, your dream will be reality.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

God has a way of working on His own timetable. And it usually is a lot different from ours.

It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate.

The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

I always have my own music on my iPod, especially songs that I am going to record. Besides that, I have lots of others ranging from Chris Brown to Beyonce', Michael Jackson, Rascal Flatts and Adele.