The imagination gland doesn't die. It just becomes reliant on manufactured spirit.

It is neither poor handling nor the weather that turns the pages of a book a fine sepia. It is the reader's imagination.

Ms Rainn, when was the last time you visited a library for the books and not the free Internet it offers?

She lost touch with reality and was dragged into her imagination.

When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.

The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of.

As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool.

What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine.

What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly?

Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas.

It was nice meeting you three, and I'm sure under different circumstances it would have been a pleasure.

You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

If you try to look But you don't touch Then you won't touch But you'll never feel And if you don't feel You'll never cry And if you don't cry Then you'll never heal.

You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.

When the world is on your shoulder, got to straighten up your act and boogie down.

The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow.

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.