The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.