Words worth keeping

[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...

You can make anything by writing.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

I like good strong words that mean something…

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

Let our scars fall in love.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.