Once a year I need to hear you tell me how proud you are of me for growing a little more.
Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick...
I didn’t mean to snore in your ear, but I wanted to inhale all of what was wrapped up in the comforter with me.
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.
It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.
I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.
In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.
At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.
I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.
I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for me: I had to tell the story for myself.
When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.
Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote 'The Search,' that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google alone, but Google's narrative worked to drive the entire story.
I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.
