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.

In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener....

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn’t so sure.

When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you’re going to...

If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and...

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Every event in life — the rejections, the relationships, all the embarrassing things you do will lead you to the person you are destined to be with. You may want to change certain things about...

We become the books we read.

To tell you the truth, I used to consider it a disgrace to be found ignorant by other people. But now, I find that I am not ashamed of knowing less than others, and I’m...

He whom the gods love dies young.

The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul.

The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

Love The Stacks loves YOU! Without you, we wouldn’t exist. Thank you all.

Just because everyone CAN publish a book these days, doesn’t mean everyone SHOULD. The world doesn’t need 1000 knock-offs of 50 Shades of Grey. I’m not so sure the world even needed ONE 50 Shades...

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.