If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests...

I cannot explain love. I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment...

I read in self-defense.

And books, they offer one hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

Not one-tenth of them. I don’t suppose you use your Sevres china every day?

Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don’t care. Old is when you don’t want...

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

You read a book for the story, for each of its words,” Gordy said, “and you draw your cartoons for the story, for each of the words and images. And, yeah, you need to take...

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

We live for books.

Reading Gives Us Some Place To Go, When We Have To Stay Where We Are.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Personally I know only one person who wrote about utopia. Afterwards he was executed. I suppose it’s not my genre.

There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone...

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

I want to read every book that’s writtenhear every song that was sungI want to gaze at every cloudand hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue.

But Fin would always be a bit of a romantic, at least when it came to books.

I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be...

Have you by any chance an edition of St. Ignatius’s treatise against the Gnostics?” he asked in a low clear voice. The young assistant looked gravely back. “Not for sale, I’m afraid,” he said. “Nor,...

I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the feel of paper. The sound it makes when I turn...

Is there a better method of departure by night than this quiet bon voyage with an open book, the sole companion who has come to see you off, to wave you into the dark waters...

I’ve decided I don’t like books that end with ‘The End’. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

This book is full of empty love quotes. If you are looking for the meaning of life and love, then this book is for you. You won’t find the answers here, of course, but you’ll...

Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song,...

Sometimes the best books are hidden gems that you didn’t even know were out there!

So slip on your goggles and your reading trunks, for the sun is high. Let me leave you with one more thought. In what season of the year do we find ourselves – I’m speaking...

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That’s basically the highest compliment I can give.

I sat, a solitary man,In a crowded London shop,An open book and empty cupOn the marble table-top.While on the shop and street I gazedMy body of a sudden blazed;And twenty minutes more or lessIt seemed,...

This is the best time to be an author.

Yeah. Isn’t it great?

It’s not macho to read? Nonsense. Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-itness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home...

When there is nothing to say about a book; we end up saying “Beautiful Story”.

Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. ‘I’ll have to admit that he’s a very competent scholar.’Isn’t he just a librarian?’ Garion asked, ‘somebody who looks after books?’That’s where all the rest of...

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home–Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that...

You have to be careful what you write and not allow self righteousness to cloud your ability to be objective. This story is not about you, it’s about people and things that no one else...

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying,...

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.”[Proposition touching Amendment of Laws]

I’m not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.

Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.

One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.

Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. “I have kola,” he announced when he sat...