I will say I am the sum of my books.

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...

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...

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.

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

The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this...

Edward genially enough did not disagree with what I said, but he didn’t seem to admit my point, either. I wanted to press him harder so I veered close enough to the ad hominem to...

That’s my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you want, but you were born on the wrong continent.

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

sometimes stories and books are all that we need to take us away

This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.

I tend to describe recurring themes as being part of a writer’s DNA – something so deeply embedded in us that even we don’t notice it until we’ve written three or four books.

I’ll tell you something,” said Francis,urgent with shoe lace, “if we keep on saying things weren’t when we know perfectly well they were, we shall soon dish up any sort of chance of magic we...

I write to find strength.I write to become the person that hides inside me.I write to light the way through the darkness for others.I write to be seen and heard.I write to be near those...

And every writer cherishes the dream of setting the young on fire, even if only by a cigarette butt tossed casually over the shoulder, and when we meet young people who say that they were...

Reading is my escape when reality sucks

No two persons ever read the same book.

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

…but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

There’s no savior here. Especially not at 1:15 a.m.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books, you know, are a lot like people, and each and every one of us is ultimately judged by the company we keep

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive...

Nudge threw her arms around my neck. ‘I love you Max! I love all of us too!’Yeah, me too,’ Said the Gasman. ‘I don’t care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or...

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

I’m a big ‘Star Wars’ fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read ‘Star Wars’ fiction that went between the newest trilogy and the original trilogy and it...

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. “No,” she said softly, “Oh no. No.” “Leave me,” said Gavriel. …..”Shut up or I might,” she...

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Really, I don’t like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn’t writing books.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.

Let there be a Page, and many a Page,” and there was a Book. And we saw that the Book was good.

I suggested to her that she start writing. “I can’t write at all,” she said. “Neither can many bestsellers,” I replied. “But that pesky detail didn’t stop them.

I sped-read through a book that probably weighed a pound, though I only gleaned about nine ounces of information. That’s because it was a book on love that I read while making love. I multitask...

And in that moment he realised that even though the dreams they’d seen together, hoped for and believed in had come true, it wasn’t enough. It was far from reality which was lonesome and woeful....

I only want power so I can get books.

I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind… and a mind needs...

For now the world keeps turning and I keep breathing, in and out, in and out. I breathe in the life that is all around me, in this garden, in this city, in the fields...

If you`re wondering how you`ll find time, it means you don`t really want to read. Because nobody`s ever got time. Children certainly haven`t, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. Time...

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

They were…no ordinary group, gathering together to kill an evening, to seek refuge from critical husbands and demanding children while idly discussing their new best-seller. They met because literature was their shared passion. Books were...

Enjoying a cup of coffee and a good book, is there anything better? Only if literature were liquid and drinkable.

Una casa senza libreria è una casa senza dignità, — ha qualcosa della locanda, — è come una città senza librai, — un villaggio senza scuole, — una lettera senza ortografia.”(“A house without a library...

Reviewing a book written by someone you’re living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

In a book, even the real bastards can’t hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one’s there to see you...

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.