Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or...

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Me and my readers, we’re on the same page. That page is one.

Books; I repeat, for they’ve not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people’s ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles, their dreams…..their...

I’d experienced the ’40s and ’50s by looking at my grandparents’ old clothes, books, and magazines.

Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic....

I went through and underlined all the funny lines in his book, and by the time I was done, I had underlined his whole book. That would be great if he wrote a humor book,...

And that’s the most horrible thing about censorship: To avoid falling afoul of the censors, we question ourselves and censor ourselves and make a big deal out of things in our heads. We do the...

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy’s souls reside there, too.

Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with...

Adieu, mon cher vieux. Relis et rebûche ton conte. Laisse-le reposer et reprends-le, les livres ne se font pas comme les enfants, mais comme les pyramides, avec un dessin prémédité, et en apportant des grands...

Waiting to be discovered, hoping to be seen, wishing someone else would do the work, wanting to make it big while dreaming of being rich and famous just like your heroes is submissive, passive, foolish,...

In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional poetry but in other poetry as well,...

For where books, for instance, always offer a thousand times more than they are, television offers exactly what it is, its essential immediacy, its ever-evolving, always-in-progress superficiality.

Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside...

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.

The best horror novels open up, “It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air.

Anyone who can see will see you beautiful.

The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of schizophrenia down, and I want to put down the stigma surrounding...

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

You Can’t Change Your Life… Until You Change Your Heart, and You Can’t Change Your Heart… Until You Change Your Mind!

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me...

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

That one special book that takes you on a trip you never expected to go on…

She didn’t really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle. Even when they didn’t fit together, they revealed a little more about what kind of...

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life?

Entrei numa livraria. Pus-me a contar os livros que há para ler e os anos que terei de vida. Não chegam! Não duro nem para metade da livraria! Deve haver certamente outras maneiras de uma...

I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.

Libraries should be open to all – except the censor.[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath gets slower and deeper as I peruse the shelves. I believe that books...

Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

Because, as I would always tell myself so many years later, lying here in my bed: You can’t start out again in life, that’s a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book...

There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a...

Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.

We break our huddle and Eight immediately transforms into one of his massive avatars. His handsome features melt away, replaced by the snarling face and golden mane of a lion. He grows to about twelve...

Non c’è nessun libro così cattivo che non abbia in sé qualcosa di buono.

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

Maelyn smiled. If books could have litters, she’d be just as happy.

I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.” –Alison Bechdel

I don’t just write books. I climb inside and live there.

Every 10 years you’re a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They’re full of new rewards.

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

Reading…inspires,enlightens,nurtures,refines,educates,informs,transforms,persuades,challenges,engages, entertains,mesmerizes,captivates,gratifies,rewards,quiets,and calms.Granted, it won’t get the dishes done,but sacrifices must be made.