Berichbd Quotes & Sayings

That brings me to the real reason for the title: Where does that which happens during reading a book take place? ( ... ) Does not every reader, whether he wants it or not, bring ( ... ) his own experiences and thoughts into the process of reading? ( ... ) Is not every book a mirror in which the reader is reflected, whether he knows it or not? And is not every reader a mirror in which the book is reflected? — Michael Ende

ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters. — Kevin J. Anderson

Their period in the apartment together had been one of almost narcotic domesticity. — J.G. Ballard

Everything you experience in your life is invited, attracted and created by you. — Robert Anthony

And what agony, thought Krug the thinker, to love so madly a little creature, formed in some mysterious fashion (even more mysterious to us than it had been to the very first thinkers in their pale olive gloves) by the fusion of two mysteries, or rather two sets of a trillion of mysteries each; formed by a fusion which is, at the same time, a matter of choice and a matter of chance and a matter of pure enchantment; thus formed and then permitted to accumulate trillions of its own mysteries; the whole suffused with consciousness, which is the only real thing in the world and the greatest mystery of all. — Vladimir Nabokov

For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt. One who marries six times in ten years won't change jobs. One who moves often to serve his company will maintain a stable marriage. A woman chained to one home and family may redecorate frantically or take a lover or go to many costume parties. — Larry Niven

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline. — Tecumseh

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived — Carl Jung

In a near-by clearing, Cricket and How-Ya-Do came upon a ridiculously comical sight.
It was an extra-large hyper-manic bird yelling at the funniest looking Crawfish that she had ever seen. The Crawfish stood over a foot tall, which just does not happen, and he was wearing a light-blue beanie and gold chains around his neck. — Darwun St. James

It's great being a part time writer. If you sell books you're a success. But if you don't sell any then all you have to say is " writing is just an amusing hobby". — Aaron T. Knight