Maelyn smiled. If books could have litters, she’d be just as happy.

I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.” –Alison Bechdel

I don’t just write books. I climb inside and live there.

Every 10 years you’re a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They’re full of new rewards.

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

Reading…inspires,enlightens,nurtures,refines,educates,informs,transforms,persuades,challenges,engages, entertains,mesmerizes,captivates,gratifies,rewards,quiets,and calms.Granted, it won’t get the dishes done,but sacrifices must be made.

I don’t like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way – in my opinion – to make good readers is to let kids choose their own...

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

By way of this unprecedented, unbridled literary promiscuity, I have made some pleasant discoveries.

I love when I finish reading a chapter that I wrote and my cheeks hurt from smiling and all I can utter is, ‘Wow.’

Systematisches Lesen ist kaum von Nutzen. Offizielle Bücherlisten (der Klassiker, der Literaturgeschichte, der zensurierten oder empfohlenen Bücher, der Bibliothekskataloge) können per Zufall den einen oder anderen nützlichen Hinweis geben. Die beste Anleitung bieten persönliche Launen...

Honestly, I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl’s life. Like, no. The girl needs to change her own life.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far...

a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

Sometimes you wish to escape to another part of the book.You stop reading and riffle the pages, catching sight of the story as it races ahead, not above the world but through it, through forests...

It has long been my belief that everyone’s library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library,...

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

I don’t want to be around people who accept me as is, in my unrefined state of becoming. I consistently want people around me who push and encourage me to be my ultimate best, who...

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.

Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it’s like tearing off the bandages.

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

Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Market it with the persistence of a drug peddler.

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...

Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. ‘She would understand the issues if she chose to open one of the volumes, but she knew that there were conversations within which she would never...

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Learn to handle books, you will learn how to enjoy life.

History is a burden. Stories can make us fly.

Holiness may be found by being in the mere presence of books, without evening parting the pages.

A book is like a vacation for the brain.

Be thankful for the people who have stood by you and cheered you on, but don’t forget to be thankful for the ones that said it could not be done. Writing a book is no...

She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn’t get through with it. Anything really interesting absorbed her so that she never knew what was...

To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books.

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we carry inside us, that when we read, we...

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or...

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.

No one’s book is perfect.

Aryami Bose’s home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.

Once he’d asked, “Don’t you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room.”She had laughed and said, “I’ve read them all. I want to remember them the way they were. If...

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

That’s how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.

Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today!

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.