Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.
And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.
Read. Forget everything you’ve been told about books and read.
He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.
I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.
I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.
Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.
I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I’m not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.
Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures. When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories.
I don’t know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don’t write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.
You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do. The book is much more important than the writer.
I don’t choose. Normally it’s the book that chooses me.
But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.
Songs won’t save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
The subordinate’s job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.
In book subjects a student can only do a student’s work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.
Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.