When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[…].

To hold a book between your hands, to form the intimate circle, a world apart from the world, an otherness that is uniquely your own. Always accompanied by a sound to no one other than...

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.

People visit exposed and vulnerable; writers live there

Le livre, comme livre, appartient à l’auteur, mais comme pensée, il appartient -le mot n’est pas trop vaste- au genre humain. Toutes les intelligences y ont droit. Si l’un des deux droits, le droit de...

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Good characters make you feel like you have new friends, don’t they? You have to re-read the books just to visit with them again. Grace Awakening. Book one: Awakening Dreams

We don’t genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he’ll see right into your soul. I didn’t want anyone to see into my soul.

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it...

Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind”, said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. “I devour it and then I lose it and sometimes I can’t...

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I...

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn’t want to move around very much.

…And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps… You’ll be talking cordially to someone and make an offhand reference, ‘I recently read where–‘ and they’ll cut you off and...

great books are the ones we need

Sitting in the bathroom, reading the book again, he became so involved in the story that his legs fell asleep. He kept reading, intending to get up at the end of this page, then at...

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among...

Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am.

As a children’s minister, I always believed that I was an evangelist, and at the end of the book, there’s a simple prayer that, whoever’s reading the book could accept Jesus as their Lord and...

Next o’er his books his eyes began to roll,In pleasing memory of all he stole.

I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.

Back home, I went to my closet and pulled out the old engineer’s transit case stored there. When we were kids, Emma and I had found it in the attic, dusty and empty, and the...

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

The world promises you so much…and leaves you empty. God’s promises are for real and forever.

Not books.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

Maybe some people were destined to be alone. But, I reminded myself, you’re never alone if you read.

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.

When you don’t have the pressure of pleasing someone else and do something because you love doing it, that’s when the best works are born.

We need knew knights, but without swords.

I cannot live without books.

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?

There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little...

Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having.

Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books...

He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college, he was cured of the love of reading in all its shapes; and...

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French was the language she preferred, and she read French books indiscriminately, picking up...

In classrooms and living rooms across the globe, an agnostic or an atheist may be heard to strenuously argue, ‘But the Bible is just a book.’ Similar arguments may be raised against other holy books....

That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He said the purpose of books was to permit us to exercise...

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.

Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were young you are afraid to read again years later, like being sorry you...

A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we’re trying to keep up with. You’ve got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I’m not like that and...