Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg’s period. Excuse me, but that’s where it was at.

I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

My favourite poem is the one that starts ‚Thirty days hath September‘ because it actually tells you something.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all at once.

I sell escapism.

I’ve just always been a reader.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

I spend a lot of time reading.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I don’t read books much.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

I’m the only person you’ve ever met who has read Longfellow.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the ‚Pilgrim’s Progress,‘ my first collection was of John Bunyan’s works in separate little volumes.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.