Once you read a book it becomes a part of you forever

A smoke, a book, a cup of coffee. These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days.

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...

… in art nothing is more secondary than the author’s intentions.

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...

Old words are reborn with new faces.

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story

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

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

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.

How do you choose your books?’ my friends had asked. Less than a week into my project, I can now tell them the beginning of the truth. I don’t always choose the books, I’ll say....

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

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

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

Bias rules our minds and causes us to overlook the obvious. From ‘Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather’, by Robert Gately

… 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,...

Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

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

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

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

Kim bilir, iç sıkıntısı olmasa, belki insanlar işe gitmeyi unuturlardı. ‘İş avutur,’ derdi babası. O böyle avuntu istemiyordu. Bir örnek yazılar yazmak, bir örnek dersler vermek, bir örnek çekiç sallamaktı onların iş dedikleri. Kornasını ötekilerden...

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...

Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her friend ascend to the top deck in her new panda-eyed makeup and had a mauvais quart d’heure, wondering...

…’you have to ask yourself though, who are we to stop a war?’I sigh, wishing that the glittering pinpricks above us were truly stars. It was rare to see any due to the endless cloud...

Literature is the extant body of written art. All novels belong to it.The value judgement concealed in distinguishing one novel as literature and another as genre vanishes with the distinction.Every readable novel can give true...

I believe it’s fine to give up books even after a page; there’s so much to read in the world that will delight you, so why should you work against the grain?

Literary detection and firearms don’t really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.

I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves.

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris’s books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

But the act of rereading contains profundities, and challenges, all its own. Going back to a book — sometimes the same physical copy of it — that you fell in love with years ago is...

A blanket would be a great surface to print my new book on, so you could read it in bed while you’re having boring, obligatory sex with your spouse, who’s as dry and exciting as...

Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.

I wrote half this book (the left half) while I was asleep, and I wrote the other half (the top half) while daydreaming. So here we have a case where two halves equal one quarter,...

All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness....

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that...

It’s a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.

This book is impossible to put down!” Well, apparently it’s also impossible to pick up.

The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from one medium to another, no...

She quickly realized she had an affinity for the older books and their muted scents of past dinners and foreign countries, the tea and chocolate stains coloring the phrases. You could never be certain what...

The habit of upgrading your mind with self-development messages is highly important, if you desire to reach the pinnacle of your true destiny in life.