I study men like I study books: I skim their midsections.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer...

I’m contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel

It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged

As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or...

When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the world,and the origin of all life.

It means the clouds are clearing on Avon.

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

My depth of purse is not so greatNor yet my bibliophilic greed,That merely buying doth elate:The books I buy I like to read:Still e’en when dawdling in a mead,Beneath a cloudless summer sky,By bank of...

Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This...

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

Forgive, I hope you won’t be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this,...

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose...

if a book isn’t self-explanatory, then it isn’t worth reading.

Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.

Nehmen Sie ein gutes Buch mit ins Bett – Bücher schnarchen nicht.

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...