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Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today.
Choose an author as you would a friend
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Every good journalist has a novel in him - which is an excellent place for it.
Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think the university stifles writers...
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
From the moment I picked your book up...
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil...
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
He who opens a door, closes a prison
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library
Beast of the North Woods
by Annelise Ryan
When a local fisherman is mauled to death, it seems like the only possible cause is a mythical creature.
Harlem Rhapsody
by Victoria Christopher Murray
The extraordinary story of the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance.
Three Days in June
by Anne Tyler
A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant classic: a socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding.
Polite conversation is rarely either.
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