Daily reading is a sacred knowledge.

Because I’ve a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I’m about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

Dear Reader,This book you hold is a treasure, of sorts, as is every book I have ever known.I have made it for you – especially you – for reasons you will understand as my words...

God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his.

A winner is not someone who wins. It’s someone who tries and isn’t afraid to lose.

It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of others – even my nearest and dearest – there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a...

There’s more to the erotic life than explicitness.

Lost: The common sense of an unconventional dreamer. If found, please return to Love The Stacks.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting...

I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing in the world for me that compares to being lost in a really...

We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.

The library was still giving trouble: a few books in some of the more obscure corners of the stacks retained some autonomy, dating back to an infamous early experiment with flying books, and lately they’d...

For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and – ta da! – a window.

Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in...

Holding a book is like holding a dream. the only difference is, you can touch it, store it and relish it years later.

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.

The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They’re all intertwined.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of...

I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer – not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi – though it is true that what...

Books are Apologize from Life

12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.

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...

If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing not vague or virtual but something you can hold and feel and smell...

Maybe you should stop putting so much faith into what you read in books.

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me....

A woman’s destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.

There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of...

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You...

Literature is the real life of imaginary people.

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their...

Give at least fifteen minutes everyday to reading. Sometimes, we spend a lot of time watching television – surfing through channels; not really watching anything in particular. Fifteen minutes out of that time is not...

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.”(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)

All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.

If a book cover has raised lettering, metallic lettering, or raised metallic lettering, then it is telling the reader: Hello. I am an easy-to-read work on espionage, romance, a celebrity, and/or murder. To readers who...

All my friends are in my books.

Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.

You are the first of your kind. Books will be written about you. Be the legend you are meant to be. – Astral

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him...

Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy – all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a...

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers… only they don’t critique me and then get up for coffee.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

Just because you’re breathing, doesn’t mean you’re alive.

Life & Deathenergy & Peaceif I stoped todayit was funEven the terrible pains that have burn me & scarred my soul it was worth it for having been allowed to walked where I’ve walked. Which...