I’ve decided that it’s possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back. It’s sad, perhaps, but not tragic,...

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers – lovely, but dead.

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.

A book lives a new life every time it is read.

If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.

The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside what we usually think of as good reasons. It’s asking us to stop...

Experience is the best teacher.

I even love the smell of books.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.

I am very careful about who I choose to build memories with. Some of them might last a lifetime.

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people’s lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life […].

love was never meant to bejust a metaphorbetween the pages of poetry.

Lezen hielp – de papieren wereld bood houvast die ik in de echte niet had. Boeken leerden me dat er een werkelijkheid was voorbij deze, wat troost bood. Perspectief. Ze lieten me zien wie ik...

There’s no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

For me the greatest joy is to be able to submerge myself for a few hours every day in a human time that otherwise would be alien to me. A lifetime is not enough.

Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious wayto feel alive.

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people… I got the feeling that Julián was living in the...

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

Forever encased in the amber of a writer’s prose.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It’s a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections – and it’s hidden inside an old palace...

But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions.

Reading is where the magic happens

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its ‘self-help’ section: ‘For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships...

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other...

I’m afraid I’ve degenerated into a bibliophile.

For Arthur, words gathered in waterfall thoughts that spilled off the page into the pools of imaginaton collecting in his head.

You’re loco, Carlos. Insane. Totally crazy… Most guys think they’re imperfect for still being virgins past the age of seventeen.

The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that he wasn’t real

I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it?

Besides it’s not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can’t you?

He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.

If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made.

The Book of Life, I’m still writing it—both literally and literarily. So far I’ve written the Table of Contents. Right now it’s more of a coffee table.

You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose!

He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and a small stack of crumpled magazines. “See, I even brought some things to...

Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know; for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties.

Son, I’m dying,” where I visualize the day my estranged dad calls me out of the blue to tell me he is dying, and in as many ways as possible I’ll offer up various responses...

Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that they can create [expansive or entrapping] realities over and over.~Kuan Yin

I think when you first start out, you’re writing books that are about your immediate place.

As a fiction writer, let me make it up, and let me make it up to you. I’ll pen our love story, if you’ll be my co-author.