If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
We’re all stories, in the end.
I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
I open at the close.
I write to discover what I know.
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear.
Write what you know.
A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth.
For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.
Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.
Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.
The stories we love best do live in us forever.