People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

Everything begins by making your audience pay attention.

The Boy’s head was spinning. Raul was real, and quite possibly not kindly disposed to him, as Marama’s potential heir and jail-breaker. The sailors worshiped Marama, who controlled the tides and commanded them through dreams?...

The present moment is the combination of future and past…so let’s live and sometimes, sometimes let’s just forget about the rest!

Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and float back to the floor from whence it came. Wealth can gray your eyes...

My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and...

Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own.I am the force.

The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of this world.

Relish what is good and expedient.

Sun Tzushi.

You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it’s about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it’s about something else, and then by the time you’re done, you...

There’s my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.

I’ve read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in.”Anybody else except Ackley would’ve taken the goddamn hint. Not him though…”What the hellya reading?””Goddamn book.”He shoved my book back with his hand so...

Its not the love that hurts but the scented memories of anticipated dreams of a future together

It’s commonplace to say that we ‘love’ a book, but when we say it, we mean all sorts of things. Sometimes we mean that a book was important to us in out youth, though we...

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can’t really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book,...

How could we love books more than money? This is the state of book lovers.

If I do decide to have a Girl’s Gone Wild moment, I want it to be with some hot young thing, not a senior citizen-Jaycie Lerner

We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality.

I Don’t Waste My Time Doing Crosswords, As My Life Is The Only Puzzle I Care To Resolve!

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

A library: Where we can shhhh people without offense.

I’m so sorry. I think I’m just tired.” The socially accepted excuse for being mental.

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of...

We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves.

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

I’ve often described my book ‘Anno Dracula’ as ‘literally, a vampire novel’ – in that it battens on to other novels and sucks their lifeblood, transforming as well as feeding off them.

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.

I didn’t expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn’t realize I was going to have to deal...

It was a musty sweet smell. “Is this plague city?

Develop an affirmation today, and start getting instant confirmation in all works of like.

Cualquier acción motivada por la furia, es una acción condenada al fracaso

Experience is the best teacher.

Well, I suppose they’ll think I fancy grubby little boys.

a book is a box of words until you open it.

Kiss my ass.” “If you’d like me to start there.

Don’t buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had...

I don’t understand this irony – valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn’t dated.

Game… Set… Match Bitch! ~Alexandria Bell

But more importantly in my book of life, it’s what you can’t buy with money that is often more important than what you can buy.

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred...