“I like big books and I cannot lie.You other readers cant denyThat when a kid walks in with The Name of the WindLike a hardbound brick of win.Story bling.Wanna swipe that thingCause you see that boy...”

“Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, dont be upset when others decide youre a...”

“On a related note, I think for many of us, the first step in becoming a good writer is to write crap. In all seriousness, none of us are born knowing how to write. Almost all of us will produce a l...”

“Can we all pause a moment to appreciate the artistry of that sentence? "Sitting casually on the floor, a guard sat..." That's freaking art right there! Someone nominate this thing for the Hugo Awar...”

“Ive said for years ever since I figured out how to write Goblin Hero that its important to give yourself permission to write crap. Perfection is the destroyer of art. Its paralyzing. Art, whether...”

“But 'I worked hard on this' doesnt exempt you from criticism. Those harsh reviews arent about anyone being out to get me. Its not an Authors vs. Reviewers thing. Its people taking the time to expre...”

“you are a lover of the wordsa soul mate to the storyeverything becomes a part of youfrom my fingertips to your eyesfrom my heart to yours”

“But now books and men had gone their separate ways. Who has the patience for a book? Only a book.”

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

“Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.”

“In those days, there was no money to buy books.”

“Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in tow ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they di...”

“my first recommendation to people in charge of science education is, more money for public libraries and museums. Public libraries and museums ought to be as common as schools.”

“Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.”

“If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle. ”