“Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public. ”

“Harold Bloom weeps for me.”

“Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.”

“Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.”

“Im addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read.”

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”

“Writers write while dreamers procastinate. ”

“I wasn't born to cook or clean,but to read and write,if you don't like me the way I am,then go fly a kite.”

“For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.”