I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that as a novelist you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books we are not alone.

As a child I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there I wanted to make loads of money.

If the First Amendment means anything it means that a state has no business telling a man sitting alone in his house what books he may read or what films he may watch.

You could say in a vulgar Freudian way that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

I live alone with cats books pictures fresh vegetables to cook the garden the hens to feed.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be and he who studies men will know how they are.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7 my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

At a young age I was interested in comic books which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them however has not changed.

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking letting yourself go.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Each age it is found must write its own books or rather each generation for the next succeeding.