Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

It’s not about the typo, it’s about the message.

Tornare a Derry. Perché avevamo promesso, mi ha detto, ed è vero. Abbiamo promesso. Tutto noi. Da ragazzi. Nel ruscello che attraversa i Barren, tenendoci per mano in circolo, dopo che ci eravamo tagliati i palmi con un pezzo di vetro. Sembravamo un gruppo di ragazzini che giocano ai fratelli di sangue, solo che si faceva sul serio.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.