When a person reaches the end of a book and says, ‘I want to read that again,’ what he’s actually saying is that he wants to mentally merge with his favorite character and stroll among...

Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live...

In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to...

Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows–far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests,...

BIG books are better. There, I said it and it’s true. 

Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I had lived in, had visited and would visit again, just as all the...

A good book is an event in my life.

Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Books,’ I say sleepily. ‘They don’t change either. If you read a book and look at it again later on, it’s still the same thing. But it’s exciting all over again.

Pages entertain me more than pictures do.

But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we...

Just as an apple a day keeps the doctor away,a book a week keeps the mind ever sleek

Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.

I put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most of them were some permutation on self-help. Going by how popular these books...

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes,...

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else’s story.

People perish. Books are immortal.

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

It’s a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That’s the most you can ever do.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with...

I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need...

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Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don’t count-I mean something with print in it.

I hope I don’t write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself “When did they live?” I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live!...

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

A good book will surely become an event in your life.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

My characters don’t always know more than the reader does, because my readers get the best seat in Paper House.

There’s a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we’re even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won’t supply them.

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I’m still looking...

Well, right now I’m not dead. But when I am, it’s like…I don’t know, I guess it’s like being inside a book that nobody’s reading. […] An old one. It’s up on a library shelf,...

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

…there are pleasures to be had from books beyond being lightly entertained. There is the pleasure of being challenged; the pleasure of feeling one’s range and capacities expanding; the pleasure of entering into an unfamiliar...

Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To lose oneself in a book was to be slightly wacky, a little greedy and ultimately slothful....

We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

In the lie of truth lies the truth.

Nobody ever gave away a trophy for reading books

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

never replace the real thing”. Then I was given a Kindle as a present. That shut me up. Stock complaints about the inherent pleasure of ye olde format are bandied about whenever some new upstart...

La emoción no es una herramienta para resolver problemas.

The point is, Jenna, no one is normal or perfect like that house you see across the street. Everyone suffers from their own struggles, whether they’re big or small.

She’s a sailboat and I’m an anchor, pulling us both down.

Xas sighed. “But I don’t want to talk about God. Why do I? Sometimes I feel God is all over me like a pollen and I go about pollinating things with God.”Sobran opened his eyes...

It’s a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives...