Words worth keeping

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious Ambiguity.

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

We read to know we're not alone.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.