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.)

I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the ‘BFG’ on the iPad the other day and it was so interesting to see...

There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does...

Mirtis egzistuoja ne kaip gyvenimo priešingybė, o kaip jos dalis.

Once more, he was immersing himself in books, reaching the end of long articles, even going back over paragraphs to make sure he’d grasped things. How much more satisfying it was than all that skimming,...

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a...

It’s commonplace to say that we ‘love’ a book, but when we say it, we mean all sorts of things. Sometimes we mean that a book was important to us in out youth, though we...

We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life.

Children simply don’t make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it,...

Your mind is your library of what you read.

Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which...

I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much...

I don’t write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they’re not really; I don’t go there.

A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for potential partners, a 2...

Books are the greatest treasure of wisdom and knowledge for mankind.

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways....