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.

I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.

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.

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.

In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love.

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.

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

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

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

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

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

David had left her,taking his insane jealousy with him.

A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you’ll never forget.

Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.

Some of this stuff sounds dangerous.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of...

Benim için kitap okurken hala önemli olan anlamaktan çok, okuduğum şeye uygun düşler kurmaktır.

When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can...

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books.

My arms are killing me. I didn’t know words could be so heavy.

Why do all your friends talk like books?

When you’re younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it’s indelible in a way that’s not the same as when you’re an adult. So I’ll always love reading books and making movies...

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Life is wonderful and strange…and it’s also absolutely mundane and tiresome. It’s hilarious and it’s deadening. It’s a big, screwed-up morass of beauty and change and fear and all our lives we oscillate between awe...

One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind...

This is what reading is like to me. It’s finding a spring in the midst of a barren land. Just when I think I might up and die of thirst, I stumble onto this fresh,...

That’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody’s going to be against, and everybody’s going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything.

The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of others. Reality, even seen...

My friend says she’s smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.

So here is my story, may it bringSome smiles and a tear or so,It happened once upon a time,Far away, and long ago,Outside the night wind keens and wails,Come listen to me, the Teller of...

Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It’s how I feel after a good dinner. That’s why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind...

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from...

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

Pretjerano čitanje ne čini nas pametnijim. Neki ljudi jednostavno ‘gutaju’ knjige. Oni to čine bez onih neophodnih intervala razmišljanja, koji su potrebni da se pročitano ‘svari’, preradi, usvoji, razumije. Kod čitanja lični doprinos je potreban...

Time…Once it’s gone, it belongs to the past.We do not hold on to the now, andWe do not treasure the future…We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is...

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the...

It followed then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human, for in the long sum of history they are one and the same...

Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.