Authors: The only people you thank for leaving you emotionally devastated.

If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.

Books allow one to jump into another person’s imagination while also exploring their own!

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

I already know about human beings.

Libraries are full of ghosts, books being the most haunted things of all.

Look in your local Christian Bookstore. You could take most of the books there, throw them into the sea, and not lose anything valuable. The vast majority of them are just placebos that superficially attack...

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.

Orphan could no longer hear or see the shadows of the dead. He didn’t think they had perished. Most likely they were hiding now, somewhere in this landscape of books.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

No, but I do read a lot. I love to read. I could read for days and never stop. I use to be such a bookworm. I would barely look up to notice much of...

I have had my say, as he wished. Now the book belongs, as he points out, to the world he claims to speak for.

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

Suzanne Collins, it was such a big thing for me to make the handshake with her and to say, ‘You can trust me. I will not screw up your books. And I won’t let them...

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.

Here’s what I mean by the miracle of language. When you’re falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader’s heart and...

Books are never harmless…they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others as they teach us. In an invisible way their teaching...

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

Here’s what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full...

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

True fragrance speaks for itself. It does not require to be pointed out by the bearer.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It’s a schizophrenic business.

My books hold between their covers every story I’ve ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and,sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through everypainful...

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

Social networking is about building people up in your network NOT tearing them down

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice – read books.

I might not be physically strong.But I do believe that to survive, I need to be strong-willed.Which is more important in life?

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I’ve used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of...

Sometimes I come up here at night, even when I’m not fixing the clocks, just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never...

I only had two real tasks [while in Norway]: gathering dead trees to burn from the surrounding small forest and getting water from a hole in a frozen stream. The rest of the time I...

A good book is like a stream, with which we can flow slowly, playfully, it lets us savor the joy of weaving the magic of lovely thoughts, revealing the secrets of life with beautiful words.

that Beast-just-gave-Beauty-a-whole-frickin’-library look and now she’s going to spin around like she can read them all at once through osmosis.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here...

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

A man who looks like Frodo just spent $150 on erotica books and asked for my phone number. I considered giving him yours just to spite you.

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can–what we...

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Your mind will never be dull, if you remember there is never enough to learn for it to be to full.

I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both.

How do you paint a writer’s block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.

He had a little single-story house, three bedrooms, a full bathroom and a half bathroom, a combined kitchen-living room-dining room with windows that faced west, a small brick porch where there was a wooden bench...

We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can’t teach you.

I love to read. That doesn’t mean I don’t have a life. It doesn’t mean I’m a nerd.I only love the feeling that, even when you’re back in reality, you still feel like you’re in...

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

There is no ME without books; they’re everything I remember from childhood, from maturity … All that’s happened to me has been coloured, permanently, by my reading.