If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
Only the nonreader fears books.
When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.
I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.