The Book of Us. I’m writing it. And you’re in it.

Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

You could say my book is the best book ever (or worst book ever), and it wouldn’t make it any better (or worse) than it is. All art exists outside and beyond criticism.

My TV’s remote control didn’t have a source of energy, so I poured coffee in it. Now I can read any book I want.

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon...

Each Inspirational Messenger who was and has been acknowledged in the history books was done so because of the way they chose to live. Their life had a core message that was central to their...

If life was a book; every day would be a new page, every month would be a new chapter, and every year would be a new series.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Books help me create a better reality.

He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface. It was a cozy room, for all that ; it smelled...

Kitąsyk užsimerkęs paliesdavau kokią pažįstamą knygą ir giliai į plaučius įtraukdavau jos kvapą. Vien šito pakakdavo, kad pasijausčiau laimingas.

As a fan of Agatha Christie, I think a brilliant mystery novel would be trying to identify the meat contents in a McDonald’s hamburger.

I recognized it instantly. It was a made-up story, a fantasy, the tale of four kids who went through a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a strange new world. I’d read it more times...

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me...

There’s something about each of my books that I’m really proud of, and there’s something about each of my books that I cringe over.

Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman’s lot. It was a man’s world, and she accepted...

This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself.

In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener....

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn’t so sure.

When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you’re going to...

If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and...

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Every event in life — the rejections, the relationships, all the embarrassing things you do will lead you to the person you are destined to be with. You may want to change certain things about...

We become the books we read.

To tell you the truth, I used to consider it a disgrace to be found ignorant by other people. But now, I find that I am not ashamed of knowing less than others, and I’m...

He whom the gods love dies young.

The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul.

The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

Love The Stacks loves YOU! Without you, we wouldn’t exist. Thank you all.

Just because everyone CAN publish a book these days, doesn’t mean everyone SHOULD. The world doesn’t need 1000 knock-offs of 50 Shades of Grey. I’m not so sure the world even needed ONE 50 Shades...

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.

Nobody’s favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody’s favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

Each book holds an experience and an adventure.”[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]

[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, ‘To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can’t get enough of them.

He was the boy with the book. Always and forever.

It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Write what you know. Write what you can’t forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.

For a moment, he rested his hand on the pitchfork, breath ragged. Strands of hair escaped the ponytail and fell over his eyes, making him look wild, untamed. He’d changed so much from that quiet...

Jane’s stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn’t know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get...

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things...

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

I cannot live without reading.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you...

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you...