Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?" If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?" Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "Touché. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story.

Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.

"Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."