In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up...

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I’ve always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my...

Miss Appleby, her library books, and her story-telling sessions were very popular with all the children in Heavenly Valley. To Nancy and Plum they were a magic carpet that whisked them out of the dreariness...

A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.

I am an Author a person who plays with words so they can dance in the minds of others

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician’s Book.

I get really excited if I think I’m going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven’t found before and I think they’ll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the...

After each book the world changes in my eyes, i have become more suspicious and eager at the same time.

Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged

Life happened because I turned the pages.

Planting a flower’s like opening a book, because either way you’re starting something. And your garden’s your library.

Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer...

Nežinau, su kuo galėčiau palyginti ilgo skaitymo malonumą, nebent su skraidymais sapnuose, kai pakyli aukštai į orą, kai nereikia net pastangų plasnoti, sklendi sau, ir tiek. Toks lengvas, toks laimingas ir nenorintis nusileisti ant žemės.

For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.

You’re a hopeless romantic,” said Faber. “It would be funny if it were not serious. It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be...

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Sulphurous wind gusted in his wake; the dust of the street swirled and the folds of his black coat flapped against his thin body.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in...

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.

I think of literature – she wrote – as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but cannot possibly reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch...

Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.

Elend: I kind of lost track of time…Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved.

Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is explicit or before it sees its object, manifests itself as boredom or some...

I’m usually a bit awkward in houses that I haven’t been to before, so it’s a way to not look weird. If I find something I’ve read before it automatically makes me more comfortable.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

I’d like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate…. And I’d like to have the most enormous library, and I’d like to think that I...

A book a week I heave a sigh;That Slogan’s peremptory cryI will not hear, I will not heed.How can They say that I should needThe book They bid me weekly buy?But Slogans change, as days...

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings about books–I’m talking about my friends and myself–went beyond love. It was as...

If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don’t care who reads them.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines — it’s hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta.

You don’t know anything, but I know even less.

At least books could never let you down.

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page...

You discover or re-discover yourself only through travel, and unplanned travel is the most exhilarating experience. I truly believe that not all those who wander are lost. But for the ones who are lost, wandering...

But if you like, you can come share a tasty meal of bread, raisins, and fresh Burgos cheese. With that, and The Count of Monte Cristo, anyone can live to a hundred.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life...

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.

There is much to discover that’s not on the back cover!

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it’s meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author’s brains out.

You know, I don’t only play for the record books.