a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out to her, "don't want to write anymore! I'm afraid of words Meggie! 'Once they were like honey, now they're poison, pure poison! But what is a writer who doesn't love words anymore? What have I come to? This story is devouring me, crushing me, and I'm it's creator!

Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.