Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things...

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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.

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.

[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for echoes. Here the lion and the hartebeest lay together, here...

But I didn’t mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and sleeping in a library.

Every hour so many damn things in the sky! How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn’t someone want to talk about it! We’ve started and...

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.

I played Dungeons & Dragons and have read comic books since I was a kid.

Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when every word burns and shines hard and clear and infinite and exact, like...

He said it was the kind of book you made your own.

All you have to do to quickly become OLD is to slowly GIVE UP being ALIVE.

Our senses and emotions are the great source of inspiration for creating compelling and interesting art pieces (books included). Each art piece, be it a book, a song, a painting, a photograph or a product...

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf...

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is...

If I can get them to read, they do. I tell them: Stories are important.” And then he looked at me and smiled.

And I have fitted up some chambers thereLooking towards the golden Eastern air,And level with the living winds, which flowLike waves above the living waves below.—I have sent books and music there, and allThose instruments...

I have loved many men, but only one in real life. All of the other men who have ever stolen my heart in more than friendship, are in books.

Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don’t be like the book-snobs who won’t do that. Read sometimes for the words – the language. Don’t be like the play-it-safers that won’t do that. But when you...

Books are a treasured friend, however it’s difficult to explain it to a non-reader.

We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don’t live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the...

You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library … A Library should be full of exclamations! … A Library should be...

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.

This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for the rest of the afternoon.

Bea dice que el arte de leer se está muriendo muy lentamente, que es un ritual íntimo, que un libro es un espejo y que sólo podemos encontrar en él lo que ya llevamos dentro,...

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much.

I’d always admired writers. I’d always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences...

You’re reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life.

The prefect evening…lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy…Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet...

I think you’ve forgotten that this place holds a lot more than justbetraying Hobgoblins. Call upon the spirits, summon fairies, raise thedead! My brother, you have the power to do so–now get off of your...

Like the roller coaster of life…novels aren’t fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.