Does your sister read our books?” Anna wanted to know. “No. She reads literature.

It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.

Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.

The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.

An all time favorite: "The large print giveth, the small print taketh away.

I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

Beware of the person of one book

Beware the man of a single book.

The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.

Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of traveling to distant lands.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to enquiry (William of Baskerville)

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.