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.

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.

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.

You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it’s like you’re in two places at the same time: you’re sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl,...

I can lend you my money not my books.

His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly...

Read positive books; see positive things and surround yourself with positive thinkers; life will be full with positivity.

He balanced in space with the book in his sweating cold fingers.

What you should actually be trying to figure out is how to tell your story. The one that is every bit as unique to you as your fingerprints.This is the truly amazing feat because you...

I believe we do well to fall asleep each night with books. We enter the library of our dreams in good company then.

Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life’s time to both.

Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.

Und wenn ich mal heirate, dann muss mein Mann zwei Bedingungen erfüllen: Er muss Bücher und Kinder lieben, alles andere ist nicht so wichtig. Ich meine, wie er aussieht und so. Obwohl es ja nicht...

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be … without the other?

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book’s form hardened.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply “there is a book.

My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I’ve already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it’s God will.

Mostrare la propria libreria è come far entrare un estraneo nell’intimità. È come raccontare dei propri flirt. Una cosa da evitare.

One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.

That’s what our country needs – more books and far more readers.

I’d always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice.

I write to get ideas out of my head

On to the library. And all through his time at the card catalog, combing the shelves, filling out the request cards, he danced a silent, flirtatious minuet of the eyes with a rosy-cheeked redhead in...

His bedroom was a reflection of Bryant’s mind, its untidy shelves filled with games and puzzles stacked in ancient boxes, statues and mementoes competing for space with books on every subject imaginable, from Sensation and...

It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that there are no race of people who talk about books, or,...

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.

I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they’d just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn’t translate through sports, or music, dancing,...

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

I’ve always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

Books are like truth serum– if you don’t read, you can’t figure out what’s real.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

Knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.