And every writer cherishes the dream of setting the young on fire, even if only by a cigarette butt tossed casually over the shoulder, and when we meet young people who say that they were...

Reading is my escape when reality sucks

No two persons ever read the same book.

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

…but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

There’s no savior here. Especially not at 1:15 a.m.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books, you know, are a lot like people, and each and every one of us is ultimately judged by the company we keep

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive...

Nudge threw her arms around my neck. ‘I love you Max! I love all of us too!’Yeah, me too,’ Said the Gasman. ‘I don’t care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or...

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

I’m a big ‘Star Wars’ fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read ‘Star Wars’ fiction that went between the newest trilogy and the original trilogy and it...

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. “No,” she said softly, “Oh no. No.” “Leave me,” said Gavriel. …..”Shut up or I might,” she...

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Really, I don’t like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn’t writing books.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.

Let there be a Page, and many a Page,” and there was a Book. And we saw that the Book was good.

I suggested to her that she start writing. “I can’t write at all,” she said. “Neither can many bestsellers,” I replied. “But that pesky detail didn’t stop them.

I sped-read through a book that probably weighed a pound, though I only gleaned about nine ounces of information. That’s because it was a book on love that I read while making love. I multitask...

And in that moment he realised that even though the dreams they’d seen together, hoped for and believed in had come true, it wasn’t enough. It was far from reality which was lonesome and woeful....

I only want power so I can get books.

I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind… and a mind needs...

For now the world keeps turning and I keep breathing, in and out, in and out. I breathe in the life that is all around me, in this garden, in this city, in the fields...

If you`re wondering how you`ll find time, it means you don`t really want to read. Because nobody`s ever got time. Children certainly haven`t, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. Time...

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

They were…no ordinary group, gathering together to kill an evening, to seek refuge from critical husbands and demanding children while idly discussing their new best-seller. They met because literature was their shared passion. Books were...

Enjoying a cup of coffee and a good book, is there anything better? Only if literature were liquid and drinkable.

Una casa senza libreria è una casa senza dignità, — ha qualcosa della locanda, — è come una città senza librai, — un villaggio senza scuole, — una lettera senza ortografia.”(“A house without a library...

Reviewing a book written by someone you’re living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

In a book, even the real bastards can’t hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one’s there to see you...

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

Almost I feel the pulsebeat of the ages, Now swift, now slow, beneath my fingertips.The heartthrobs of the prophets and the sagesBeat through these bindings; and my quick hand slipsOld books from dusty shelves, in...

I’ve received two key pieces of advice in regard to my books. The first is, “You should lay off the f-bombs.” The other is, “You should add more f-bombs.

Reading is FUNdamental

I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged, and...

[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life–the collected wisdom of the ages found only in one place: a well-stocked library.To the teachers and librarians...

Book:Sharing of life and experiences with other people.This is lifetime notes for all generations.

Stay in your room; write your own books; because everything outside this room is a lie.

You can’t do magic with books unless they’re very special copies.

No, Ben. What I’m asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben’s the driver, right?

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. … But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more...

Never Let The Roosters Wake You!

So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I’d read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn’t finish one without being in the middle of another — anything to...

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

Books are like ice cream; there is a flavor for everyone!

Le paradis des écrivains, c’est l’endroit où vous décidez de réécrire la vie comme vous auriez voulu la vivre. Car la force des écrivains, Marcus, c’est qu’ils décident de la fin du livre.