Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived.

Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones. He’ll often take better care of his books than of his own health;...

In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the novels. She had read any number of them, from...

Six men control almost all the media in the United States–book publishing, magazines, television, movie studios, newspapers, and radio. They are not friendly toward feminism, which has almost disappeared from the surface of our society....

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.

This is the most important thing about me–I’m a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and read. I’m...

People don’t really read your books, they only say they do, to keep you from feeling bad.

We have no time to waste on insignificant books, hollow books, books that are there to please…We want books that cost their authors a great deal, books where you can feel the years of work,...

You are one of us, one of those who knows without knowing, and one who will live and die in dreams that blend with this world. No, I am no gypsy, just one who has...

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

I’m a book girl–I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not...

The American writer and dilettante Logan Pearsall Smith once said: ‘Some people think that life is the thing; but I prefer reading.’ When I first came across this, I thought it witty; now I find...

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera – or an NHL game.

I am happy to keep working on books because I’m always reading, and I’m always trying to fall in love.

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all...

Where books had been a comfort before, they became a necessity, old books best of all: thick heavy tomes with stories that spread and twisted through other worlds, where he could walk like a ghost...

Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.

Maybe it’s not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book.

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it’s been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading — once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive — is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a...

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child’s hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe...

Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!If you think you can’t, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

I had to go back and reread the page a few times. As I read it, I kept drifting out of the book, out of the booth, and coasting on the green crest of the...

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.

Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new...

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

..through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.

The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

It is you who must someday break through the protective polish of who you are, to become naked and powerful to who you can truly be.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS?

What is reading but silent conversation.

She’d absolutely adored the library-an entire building where anyone could take things they didn’t own and feel no remorse about it.

I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more writers knew that, the world would be saved a lot of...

I do not read for I have renounced life, I read because one life is just not enough for me.