They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.

A Tangle of Green Men”]

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

For eight years I dreamed of fire. Trees ignited as I passed them; oceansburned. The sugary smoke settled in my hair as I slept, the scent like a cloud left on my pillow as I...

Max had once read in one of his father’s books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no...

Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means that at the current publishing rate, ten million new books will...

Is that what those were?” Gerry blithely replied.

I never thought I’d fall madly in love with literature.

You don’t buy poetry. (Neither do I.)Why?You cannot afford it? Bosh! You spendEditions de luxe on a thirsty friend.You can buy any one of the poetry bunchFor the price you pay for a business lunch....

Books: open them. Your mind is calling for new horizons of knowledge and wonders.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I’d buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

How many books are there?” said Masklin.”Hundreds! Thousands!””Do you know what they’re all about?”Gurder looked at him blankly. “Do you know what you’re saying?” he said.”No. But I want to find out.””They’re about everything! You’d...

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

Apa gunanya banyak baca bukuKalau mulut kau bungkam melulu

They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book

Make sure he’s worth it. She had thought it so many times it had become a part of her. Like her tongue filling her mouth, so this tenet filled her being.

I like paper.

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn’t making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I’d have...

If I may paraphrase Hobbes’s well-known aphorism, I would say that ‘books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

For your birthday I’ll give you 100 copies of your least favorite author’s book, and they’ll all be autographed. Now, should I sign the cover, or the inside flap?

more to be a human being with

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

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.)

The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and...

Bir kitabı okuyup bitirdiğiniz zaman, bunu yazan keşke çok yakın bir arkadaşım olaydı da, canım her istediğinde onu telefonla arayıp konuşabilseydim diyorsanız, o kitap bence gerçekten iyidir.

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

Can you think of a better way to tell?

I don’t read books regularly, because I’m always writing them. I’ve written 30 books, thousands of pages.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I’d come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by...

The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect...

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great...

Of course you can trust me,” Jake Hix said. “We read the same books.

Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.

Books end. Stories never do.

The books were a private part of me that I carried inside and guarded and didn’t talk to anybody about; as long as I had the books I could convince myself I was different from...

We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity–governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them.