«She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didn’t understand. A romance novel was just a book, while the Internet was the Internet. The...

How crazy it would be if the moon did spin and the earth stood still and the sun went dim!How absolutely ludicrous if snakes could walk and kids could fly and mimes did talk!How silly...

Some are born to greatness; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them.’ It is in this way that the librarian has become a censor of literature… books that distinctly commend what is wrong,...

It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.

I don’t remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in...

IF A THING IS WORTH HAVING, ITS WORTH CHEATING FOR.

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered,...

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.

When you receive God’s love, it means you’re getting close to Him, spending time in His presence, opening your heart to Him, seeking to know Him, and desiring to be more like Him. Remember that...

The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond the confines of our immediate world. Books introduce us to great...

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

Flowers don’t tell, they show. That’s the way good books should be too.”–Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam

I don’t take advances for my books.

If ten eyewitnesses are asked to describe a suspect, you’ll get ten different variations. The same applies to readers and their opinions about the same book. And that’s how it should be; we’re not robots.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

the art of reading, it occupies your mind no matter at any situation or mood you’re in..bringing you to completely different world, the enchanting world of the characters..giving you the best feeling after reading it..the...

Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to you. This may be difficult, because things like classes, workshops, writing programs, require...

You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.

I’m a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still...

There are many reluctant young readers who haven’t yet found books that make them laugh.

While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the ‘new’, which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex,...

Sin embargo, notábanse en esta gente una gentileza y un infantilismo extraordinarios, una incapacidad especial para el engaño, una disposición incansable para ayudarse y compadecerse mutuamente, que merecían con frecuencia tanto respeto y un aprecio...

Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.)

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

All the Midkemia stories are part of a ‘history of an imaginary place,’ so I’ve always known the cycle covered five rift wars. I just got to the end after 30 books. So there was...

On gray days, when it’s snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you’ll just read a good book all day, and he’d allow...

We buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)]

Bunlardan nasıl bir ahlak dersi çıkarmalı? Barış, Rabbimiz tarafından ne kadar sevilse de, ancak komşularınız da sizin gibi vicdanlıysa esas erdemlerden biri sayılır.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by...

I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.

Most of the great books on prayer are written by ‘experts’ – monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I’ve read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.

I’m a library user and I just don’t hoard books. To me, they’re for sharing.

The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.

Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I’m a work in progress.

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.

Books inspire us to dream, and then if we let them they will help us to achieve that dream!

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing in our hearts. To spread good books about, to sow them on fertile minds, to propagate understanding...

But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn’t matter here. What matters is what you’ve got in your gut.

I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind – mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.

Everything happens for a reason.