A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space,...

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

When I am tired, I choose to drown in a billion dozens of words. Cause they always be my medicines. My books on a shelf.

As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns...

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

I was big into mythology when I was a kid – Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion. I hadn’t heard of the books, but I was told they were very...

I also wanted you to realize that even though the pain will always be there, I’m living proof you can get past this. Right now I know it feels impossible, but one day you’ll look...

I can’t imagine it’s easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.

I have no particular plan in life – and that’s something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I’d be left...

Jack reads too many books. He thinks we’re going to drive all year and have great adventures.

A story just isn’t a story without a dragon.

Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.

None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing...

Outside Styx’s apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and...

I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap...

Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin’ 90k word novel is the hard part.

My books didn’t fit a marketing niche.

A country whose citizens do not read is already late because “reading” is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt knowledge is the gateway to personal transformation. If you don’t read,...

Why do you want a new truth when you do not practice what you already know?Far better to read a few books and make them your own than to read many books quickly and superficially.

My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. ‘Tis my mind that is starving.

If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.

A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all take time to grow, and so must a library. I wouldn’t even know...

The internet is a knowledge omelet. Sometimes I just want the purity of scrambled eggs that only a book can provide.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

I wrote a book on sex. It’s got a hole in it so you can literally fornicate with it. I’ve only sold one copy, but I’ve heard that the buyer shared the book with all...

No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands… that can do your brain.

I had a dream about you. You had four legs like a cat has four legs like a chair has four legs, and I was looking for a place to sit. Then you meowed at...

Literature simply becomes richer after you’ve been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

I write in the morning – and then I’m always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books.

[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.

It’s not lit, it’s literature. Lit is something a book can be, after you’ve decided to burn it. (I suggest you start the fire with my book.)

I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the ‘BFG’ on the iPad the other day and it was so interesting to see...

There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does...

Mirtis egzistuoja ne kaip gyvenimo priešingybė, o kaip jos dalis.

Once more, he was immersing himself in books, reaching the end of long articles, even going back over paragraphs to make sure he’d grasped things. How much more satisfying it was than all that skimming,...

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a...

It’s commonplace to say that we ‘love’ a book, but when we say it, we mean all sorts of things. Sometimes we mean that a book was important to us in out youth, though we...

We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life.

Children simply don’t make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it,...

Your mind is your library of what you read.

Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which...

I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much...

I don’t write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they’re not really; I don’t go there.

A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for potential partners, a 2...

Books are the greatest treasure of wisdom and knowledge for mankind.