books

I don't just write books. I climb inside and live there.

Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.

Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.

We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice.

Books allowed my imagination to take flight and it hasn__ landed yet

It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks.

For Arthur, words gathered in waterfall thoughts that spilled off the page into the pools of imaginaton collecting in his head.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. As a teenager, you get wrapped up in your friends and sexual stuff, and the imaginative life you had, it just goes. And mine was so rich and fun. Fortunately, I was able to tap back into that later on [through my books] to save my life.

I love knowing that people now own a piece of a world that I created.

Every book is a world.

If you think of religion as something that offers a picture of something more grand than us, reading does the same thing. Reading enables us to lift ourselves from our current situation to something higher _ and better. It expands one__ own imagination.

The magic of reading happens when an author__ written work strings you along until your imagination, aware of your wants, molds the tale into an extraordinary world to be visited frequently__erhaps dwelt in for years.

And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.

The world is small. Books make it bigger.

But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.

Sometimes one's imagination can be more beautiful than the most picturesque beach.

I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.

When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there.