I love a book that makes me cry.

Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the...

Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.

Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We’re not here to be comfortable—we’re here, really, to shake things up. That’s our job.

I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning of filmmakers find what’s acceptable on the printed page is very difficult to...

A fellow who once manipulated the money in your wallet but now curses the fellow who does.

The world of books is my fantasy.

I didn’t go to bookshops to buy. That’s a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and...

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, ‘Breakfast of Champions’ is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read.

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they’re badly read, too.

I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read.

One of the ironies of college is that the impossibility of reading your way out of the modern predicament is something you learn about, as a student, by reading. Part of the value of a...

I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings...

An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing after that, only her name, as if her name were not a name but a question. Or...

Come with me,’ Mom says.To the library. Books and summertimego together.

How am I supposed to believe you when you’re obviously carrying a fake monogram Gucci Bag?

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Did they like us?”—nor is there the anxiety of being forgotten because of displacement by someone else. All such agitating thoughts expire as we enter the pure and calm friendship of reading.

A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?

When a writer dies, he becomes his books.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

My father thinks reading is a waste of time.” Hunter thought her father was a waste of space.

And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books.

Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn’t become a bird overnight.

I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and … would sit long hours in Bodley’s arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the small and feel of all those books.

Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out...

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings...

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They’re always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.” The Book Thief

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things...

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

I cannot live without reading.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you...

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you...

The love I knew was from books..

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it’s the engine of the novel.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

You know how it is when you’re reading a book and falling asleep, you’re reading, reading… and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I’m like that all the time.

A story is not like a road to follow … it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering...

Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.

If you don’t find a good teacher, find a good book.

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.

[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for echoes. Here the lion and the hartebeest lay together, here...

But I didn’t mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and sleeping in a library.

Every hour so many damn things in the sky! How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn’t someone want to talk about it! We’ve started and...