I will say I am the sum of my books.

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...

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.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.

Nobody’s favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody’s favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

Each book holds an experience and an adventure.”[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]

[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, ‘To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can’t get enough of them.

He was the boy with the book. Always and forever.

It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Write what you know. Write what you can’t forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.

For a moment, he rested his hand on the pitchfork, breath ragged. Strands of hair escaped the ponytail and fell over his eyes, making him look wild, untamed. He’d changed so much from that quiet...

Jane’s stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn’t know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get...

If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!

To put an arrogant ‘famous’ writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

Saatin kendisi mekan, yürüyüşü zaman, ayarı insandır…Bu da gösterir ki zaman ve mekan, insanla mevcuttur.

Certainly, if money could have been raised upon the book, Robert Herrick would long ago have sacrificed that last possession: but the demand for literature, which is so marked a feature in some parts of...

When Molly O’Toole was looking at the colored pictures in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s big dictionary and just happened to be eating a candy cane at the same time and drooled candy cane juice on the colored...

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

The dog growled again, long and ferocious. The hair on my neck tingled.And just when I knew he would attack, a horrible scream split the air, and Darlene passed out and fell over on her...

Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews say that their Word of God was given by God to Moses face to face; the Christians...

Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common...

That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.

No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected, what is promised, what is allowed. One may be overcome by horror–at the...

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books,...

Words are man’s first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;

A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept her. That proved shrewd. Nepenthe had drooled on words, talked at them, and tried to eat them...

Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality.

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?

My books are about losers, about people who’ve lost their way and are engaged in a search.

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

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon – because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

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...

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you’re an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you’re probably under a restraining order.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken.

Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none.

Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.

Fear can’t be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They’re like love. They’re almost identical emotions.

I’ve stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it’s too hurtful.

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on...