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.

That day and night, the bleeding and the screaming, had knocked something askew for Esme, like a picture swinging crooked on a wall. She loved the life she lived with her mother. It was beautiful....

They burn books now, mama.The monsters burn fucking books now, mama. They have eyes full of disappointing madness. Their tongues taste like fulvous indoctrination. They teach us. Teach us sadism, hatred, lust to kill, conformity....

…büyük kalpler nedense çok zayıf oluyor…

My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life. I don’t have the courage to read it, though. I’m afraid to discover she’s ruined mine as well.

Judge not lest ye be judged yourself.

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book.

All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type.

tout aboutit en un livre,” everything ends up in a book. The Greeks speak of generations that will sing; Mallarmé speaks of an object, of a thing among things, a book. But the idea is...

I was always able to lose myself in reading. Books were a necessary escape I always gladly jumped into headfirst.

For the last several days I’ve had the sudden and general urge to buy a new book. I’ve stopped off at a few bookstores around the city, and while I’ve looked at hundreds and hundreds...

There is an exuberance in good fantasy quite unlike the most exalted moments of realistic fiction. Both forms have similar goals; but realism walks where fantasy dances.

One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind,...

The irritating question they ask us — us being writers — is: “Where do you get your ideas?”And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra!

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it’s an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I’ll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for...

I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.

I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that – you...

Temeraire said, ‘It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

Books allowed my imagination to take flight and it hasn’t landed yet

Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people’s books, one’s own books – it does not matter whose or where. Simply...

In modeling: He with better looks is more in demand than he who has read better books.

Wer sieben gute Bücher hat, braucht keine Menschen mehr.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to...

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

I guess there’s a sort of cycle with writing books. There’s all the researching and then the imagining and writing – which is the real job – and then there’s always a period when the...

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of...

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us—to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it...