A library is a feast to which we are all invited.

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.

Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.