He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface. It was a cozy room, for all that ; it smelled...

Kitąsyk užsimerkęs paliesdavau kokią pažįstamą knygą ir giliai į plaučius įtraukdavau jos kvapą. Vien šito pakakdavo, kad pasijausčiau laimingas.

As a fan of Agatha Christie, I think a brilliant mystery novel would be trying to identify the meat contents in a McDonald’s hamburger.

I recognized it instantly. It was a made-up story, a fantasy, the tale of four kids who went through a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a strange new world. I’d read it more times...

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me...

There’s something about each of my books that I’m really proud of, and there’s something about each of my books that I cringe over.

Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman’s lot. It was a man’s world, and she accepted...

This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself.

In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener....

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn’t so sure.

When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you’re going to...

If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and...

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Every event in life — the rejections, the relationships, all the embarrassing things you do will lead you to the person you are destined to be with. You may want to change certain things about...

We become the books we read.

To tell you the truth, I used to consider it a disgrace to be found ignorant by other people. But now, I find that I am not ashamed of knowing less than others, and I’m...

He whom the gods love dies young.

The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul.

The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

Love The Stacks loves YOU! Without you, we wouldn’t exist. Thank you all.

Just because everyone CAN publish a book these days, doesn’t mean everyone SHOULD. The world doesn’t need 1000 knock-offs of 50 Shades of Grey. I’m not so sure the world even needed ONE 50 Shades...

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.

Nobody’s favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody’s favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

Each book holds an experience and an adventure.”[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]

[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, ‘To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can’t get enough of them.

He was the boy with the book. Always and forever.

It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Write what you know. Write what you can’t forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.

For a moment, he rested his hand on the pitchfork, breath ragged. Strands of hair escaped the ponytail and fell over his eyes, making him look wild, untamed. He’d changed so much from that quiet...

Jane’s stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn’t know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get...

If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!

To put an arrogant ‘famous’ writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

Saatin kendisi mekan, yürüyüşü zaman, ayarı insandır…Bu da gösterir ki zaman ve mekan, insanla mevcuttur.

I cannot live without reading.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you...

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you...

The love I knew was from books..

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it’s the engine of the novel.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

You know how it is when you’re reading a book and falling asleep, you’re reading, reading… and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I’m like that all the time.

A story is not like a road to follow … it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering...

Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.

If you don’t find a good teacher, find a good book.