They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other times, other cultural backgrounds, brilliant minds who give us a new perspective on life and the world...

Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.

Creative writing is your ability to develop your inner tension, your libido, your supply of energy and electric charge, turning the charge into an image or thought, and writing down the thought, thus contributing all...

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of...

—Soló porque el mundo esté lleno de cosas malas no significa que tenga que dejar que me destrocen.—Eso decía siempre—. Merezco ser feliz.

The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to sacrifice all the you could possibly have, be, or do; you...

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

[D]on’t ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that’s what they’re there for. Use your library). Don’t apologize to this author for buying books second...

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

I believe my life has a value, and i don’t want to waste it thinking about clothing.I don’t want to think about what i will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more...

The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will...

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

I can’t sleep,I can’t but when all else fails I just breath…

At some point in reading, we realize we have to read not just the books that we’d enjoy, but the books that move us, touch us, those that break us and hurt us, those which...

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

I’d love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I’m always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Reading books is like your own emotional and wishful life that you could see yourself living.

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him...

So many books that have Christian characters but are written by atheists mercilessly pillory and mock and question the motives of people with faith. I’m past all that.

In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.

Nobody steals books but your friends.

And every book, you find, has its own social group–friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

I’d never heard of the ‘Lord of the Rings’, actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, ‘Holy cow, what...

We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for the text, filling gaps, mending faults. And sometimes, when the stars...

Home is where your books are.

He’s as tense as I am, maybe even more so, but it’s so hard to reconcile that with the serenity of weightlessness. His faux-blond hair is floating out away from his head. He’s wearing a...

Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your...

Fiction can do more than entertain you; it can change you

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 won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because...

I’m a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.

The time spent rereading one book is one less new story I’ll be exposed to in my life.

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

You’ll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live...

All souls can earn IMMORTALITY.The Creators have IMMORTALITY.The Creators are the’ ONLY’ ONES’To award IMMORTALITY…FROM MY BOOK: War between Souls over First Universe Justice Awaits

I don’t want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

The wise are above books.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard.

I spent the rest of the day in someone else’s story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from...

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.

To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill’s essay On Liberty, or Hobbes’s Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen...

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is…like a life without pictures.

A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because...

…we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose once we figure out what it is. It’s the opposite to living our lives episodically,...

In a book, all would have gone according to plan… but life was so fucking untidy — what could you say for an existence where some of the most crucial conversations of your life took...

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?