There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an...

Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.

Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books.

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nosebetween the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

…I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian here as well.”But you have just told me you were sexton here!”So I...

You could probably live without mastering the ability. But the ability to read those books…it’ll introduce you to new worlds and new thoughts. You can learn a lot about a man from the books he...

The best thing about being a writer is that ‘work’ is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

Art books are filled with interesting images. And that’s cool and all, but I look more for the nudes.

I keep my motivational book collection in the fridge. Hey, Who Moved My Cheese?! Did somebody let grandpa out of his cage again?

He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What...

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more...

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.

He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading and sedentary pursuits.

This work is the link between my Dear Natalie piece and my upcoming Agatha work. It bridges that lapse in time and shows how my thinking has changed. It shows me telling a story through...

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody’s wishing to become, of all things, a Professor of Literature.

…that the decline in reading among children was largely the fault of their parents. Parents these days don’t read books, themselves, but they feel they should make their children read. Since they aren’t readers, however,...

Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a city of unstable skyscrapers, and he was the window-washer tasked with the impossible...

Why hast Thou forsaken me? What have I done that I should suffer so?” And then, at the very darkest moment, suddenly, the veil is torn from their eyes! Truth, with her flaming torch, stands...

My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Essential acts to master for self realisation;Master the act of learning.Master the act of writing.Master the act of reading.

Love is beautiful even if they are in movies and books.

Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That’s one of their nicest qualities – their brute persistence.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

In other words, it’s one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of “This is me!

Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are...

My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. It’s about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow...

Walking into a bookshop is a depressing thing. It’s not the pretentious twats, browsing books as part of their desirable lifestyle. It’s not the scrubby members of staff serving at the counter: the pseudo-hippies and...

But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an...

Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or worn or cohabited with, his interest in poetry and his respect...

All of us can think of a book… that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from...

What luxury, to be so happythat we can grieveover imaginary lives.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

David had left her,taking his insane jealousy with him.

A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you’ll never forget.

Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.

Some of this stuff sounds dangerous.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of...

Benim için kitap okurken hala önemli olan anlamaktan çok, okuduğum şeye uygun düşler kurmaktır.

When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can...

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books.