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

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.

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

Well written novels are penned by authors who have a unique and personal ardor for their story. They fabricate the phrases of their mind into a voice and thus a character is born.

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.

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

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

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

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...

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.

Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs. In an age where most people are either blindly obedient or radical, exposing oneself to the ideas contained in even the most controversial of books is a good thing.

i read to escape reality.

When I have the Bible memorised, then I’ll be able to go and read a couple other books.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That’s why we go to movies and say, “Oh, the book is better.

that Beast-just-gave-Beauty-a-whole-frickin’-library look and now she’s going to spin around like she can read them all at once through osmosis.

The parrot had a range of phrases. His own name (‘Niko, Niko’), the name of his original owner and now ‘Stavros’. Occasionally he would also say ‘Panagia mou’, which could be an expression of piety but also a gentle expletive, depending on how it was said. With the parrot it was hard to tell. It...

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are...

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.

You’ll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books – this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one’s life becomes very small.

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Good characters make you feel like you have new friends, don’t they? You have to re-read the books just to visit with them again. Grace Awakening. Book one: Awakening Dreams

The time spent rereading one book is one less new story I’ll be exposed to in my life.

On getting lost in a book. Set adriftA life unknownConnections formLove is sewn

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?

The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to be…. The thought that other books were...

Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but I feel good about it. I chained myself to the gate of a phone book factory, a GTE factory in Los Angeles. They were using thousand-year-old trees to make phone books. I think...

Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.

It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

Generally speaking, books don’t cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

You’re a hopeless romantic,” said Faber. “It would be funny if it were not serious. It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the ‘parlor families’ today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios, and televisors, but...

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.

To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift from book to book, you’re lulled into thinking that this lack of focus is right and natural – but it’s as wrong as can be. Some serendipity in your reading is delightful, but...

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

… be knygų jau nebegalėjau apsieiti. Ne tiek be knygų, kiek be paties skaitymo. Mano akys į nieką daugiau nenorėjo žiūrėti, jos tiesiog šaukte šaukė: ,,Duok mums raidžių!.. Duok mums raidžių!..” Nežinau, gal yra tokia skaitymo liga? Jei yra, tai aš ja susirgau vaikystėje, paskui ji perėjo į chronišką ir nebepagydomą. Tiesą pasakius, niekas jos...

Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[…].

Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the...

Planting a flower’s like opening a book, because either way you’re starting something. And your garden’s your library.

When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the world,and the origin of all life.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

I’m very lucky. I’m very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print – none of them.

I don’t know why we stopped reading together, but gradually we were not doing it regularly, and then without realizing it was happening we were reading different books, and gradually we came not to care about the book the other one was reading, because it was not the book we were reading, and we became...