"love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl..."
"Without story books is like a person with no soul."
"I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read."This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons."
"Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding."
"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
"A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar."