Books are portable companions. But so are midgets.

Don’t you ever mind,” she asked suddenly, “not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is...

Sometimes you just need a book near you and you can’t explain why.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures.

As one tends to the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. I clean them, do minor repairs, keep them in good order. And every day I open a volume or two, read...

Each Christian comes from a different background, upbringing, lineage, and environment. But in Christ we are unified.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

It’s a truth universally acknowledged…

Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read.

On a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, Whitman, and Wallace Stevens, a dangerous crew to let into your head.

Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out.For the sake of my bookish reputation I upgraded to Tolstoy and Steinbeck before I understood them, but...

Everything is an art, which must be mastered.

See, some guys prefer assesSome prefer titsAnd I’m not saying that I don’t like those bitsBut what’s more importantWhat supersedesIs a girl a with passion, wit and dreamsSo I want a girl who reads.

I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long...

The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word… that by it’s trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers…. One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret...

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it’s probably because at some level you find ‘reality’ a bit of a disappointment.

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books … Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.

I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.

A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play’s not like that at all. ‘Abandonment’s not mine – it’s everyone’s. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was...

When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

The library serves as a gathering place for friends whoshare the love of books. It further serves as a resource for those who escape the pressure of everydaylife, doing it by losing themselves in the...

Don’t wake up,” he said.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find his epics on the shelf of such an unimaginable being as...

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.

Paradise will be a kind of library

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

En nuestra existencia hay una única coincidencia que nos une y, por un momento, nuestros corazones laten como si fueran uno.

Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.

I don’t reread my books after they’re published, because it’s agony.

I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and...

You’re such a book girl.

In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and cold, postponing this final bit of illumination. At last though, he grips the match...

We’re all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away–our stories. I guess that’s what I love about books–they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another...

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The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everything that has happened and will happen to me is all part of the story of this enchanted place...

I like to skip prewriting. I love just jumping into the actual writing process. Then I revise/edit and fix what I need to. Then the following steps; proofread and publish. Of course before you just...

Books might be your passion but you can’t fuck a paperback.

Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn’t exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of...

Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we...

When you learn to read you will be born again…and you will never be quite so alone again.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library.