each copy of a book has its own unique personality. Reading a book from the library is not the same as reading another copy of the same book from the same library, which is again completely different from readingyour own copy of the book.

Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.

Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world.

Of all the comforting objects in this world, few things are as reassuring and accepting as books.

Waiting to be discovered, hoping to be seen, wishing someone else would do the work, wanting to make it big while dreaming of being rich and famous just like your heroes is submissive, passive, foolish, weak, and ineffective. Take your desire for your dreams, your goals, and your ambition, then make them fuel for the...

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.

There comes a time in every man’s life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle to let him find the books that most matter to him.

People visit exposed and vulnerable; writers live there

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Flowers don’t tell, they show. That’s the way good books should be too.”–Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam

We don’t genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

If ten eyewitnesses are asked to describe a suspect, you’ll get ten different variations. The same applies to readers and their opinions about the same book. And that’s how it should be; we’re not robots.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

the art of reading, it occupies your mind no matter at any situation or mood you’re in..bringing you to completely different world, the enchanting world of the characters..giving you the best feeling after reading it..the art of writing, it shows who you are, what are your real passions, what you’ve been through..inviting other people to...

Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to you. This may be difficult, because things like classes, workshops, writing programs, require time and money. But I say this honestly and somewhat harshly – if you’re not willing to prioritize your writing,...

You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.

I’m a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched, one more Ithaca for which he was forever bound.

There are many reluctant young readers who haven’t yet found books that make them laugh.

While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the ‘new’, which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex, books, and travel, although we know that they lead us to the abyss, which, as it happens, is the only...

Sin embargo, notábanse en esta gente una gentileza y un infantilismo extraordinarios, una incapacidad especial para el engaño, una disposición incansable para ayudarse y compadecerse mutuamente, que merecían con frecuencia tanto respeto y un aprecio tan generoso como las virtudes normales de cualquier clase social del mundo.

Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.)

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

All the Midkemia stories are part of a ‘history of an imaginary place,’ so I’ve always known the cycle covered five rift wars. I just got to the end after 30 books. So there was no particular inspiration, save it was time to finish the whole shebang.

I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.

We buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)]

I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so. In moments like this, I can feel your heart beating as clearly as I can feel my own and I know that...

I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all...

The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn’t know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters, the only refuge left for him.

Most of the great books on prayer are written by ‘experts’ – monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I’ve read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.

I’m a library user and I just don’t hoard books. To me, they’re for sharing.

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I’m a work in progress.

… The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don’t whine when things are not going your way, because they...

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn’t matter here. What matters is what you’ve got in your gut.

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Everything happens for a reason.

There are those who wish to read everything. Do not try to do this. Let it> alone. The number of books is infinite, and you cannot follow> infinity…For where there is no end, there can be no rest; where there is> no rest, there can be no peace; and where there is no peace, God...