Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.

Echo looked around at her sea of tomes, and a single word came to mind: tsundoku. It was the Japanese word for letting books pile up without reading them all.

To read too many books is harmful.

Writers fly with imaginary wings.

What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don’t seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don’t seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I...

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a...

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

It is the mess that readers love. The fact that sometimes the people who love us the most aren’t people we’re related to, but people who join our family later. The book acknowledges how difficult...

The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial sections, things, that is, which the spirit can assimilate to itself. After which...

You could write a book about things that you can’t find on-line.

Books matter. They are an inspiration, an escape. Something bigger than we are…

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

That’s what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I’m not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin’s officers who committed terrible crimes, and not Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto...

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

A book,a book fullof human touches,of shirts,a bookwithout loneliness, with menand tools,a bookis victory.

I always give books. And I always ask for books. I think you should reward people sexually for getting you books. Don’t send a thank-you note, repay them with sexual activity. If the book is...

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good...

I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race – that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so...

If you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of...

I’m interested in things women do that aren’t spoken about. Manto’s stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to...

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.”(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

…these books have their own integrity, their own identity. It is not about the words in there. You don’t need to read these books. Words are there to confuse you. They are just messing around...

«She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didn’t understand. A romance novel was just a book, while the Internet was the Internet. The...

How crazy it would be if the moon did spin and the earth stood still and the sun went dim!How absolutely ludicrous if snakes could walk and kids could fly and mimes did talk!How silly...

Some are born to greatness; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them.’ It is in this way that the librarian has become a censor of literature… books that distinctly commend what is wrong,...

It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.

I don’t remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in...

IF A THING IS WORTH HAVING, ITS WORTH CHEATING FOR.

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered,...

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.

When you receive God’s love, it means you’re getting close to Him, spending time in His presence, opening your heart to Him, seeking to know Him, and desiring to be more like Him. Remember that...

The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond the confines of our immediate world. Books introduce us to great...

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

Flowers don’t tell, they show. That’s the way good books should be too.”–Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam

I don’t take advances for my books.

If ten eyewitnesses are asked to describe a suspect, you’ll get ten different variations. The same applies to readers and their opinions about the same book. And that’s how it should be; we’re not robots.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

the art of reading, it occupies your mind no matter at any situation or mood you’re in..bringing you to completely different world, the enchanting world of the characters..giving you the best feeling after reading it..the...

Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to you. This may be difficult, because things like classes, workshops, writing programs, require...

You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.

I’m a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.