I don’t read books regularly, because I’m always writing them. I’ve written 30 books, thousands of pages.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I’d come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by...

The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect...

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great...

Of course you can trust me,” Jake Hix said. “We read the same books.

Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.

Books end. Stories never do.

The books were a private part of me that I carried inside and guarded and didn’t talk to anybody about; as long as I had the books I could convince myself I was different from...

We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity–governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them.

A Decision That Can Change Your Life Forever, Can Happen In Just One Second.

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going...

Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.

Hey you, read a book. Now.

I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the...

The fault I find in our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other everyday, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything...

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world’s friend.

Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.

French Louis Seymour of the West Canada Creek, who knew how to survive all alone in a treacherous wilderness, and Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt of New York City and Raquette Lake, who was richer than...

Books don’t need batteries.

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

Books have power to bring you glory or doom, it all depends on perception.

~I gripped the knife even tighter. Far off in the distance, I could still hear them speaking, but only one thing was clear in my mind: Trevor, my father, was going to die.From that moment...

I’m glad you came.

Steadily, the room shrank, till the book thief could touch the shelves within a few small steps. She ran the back of her hand along the first shelf, listening to the shuffle of her fingernails...

A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows,To listen to its story.

There are more writers who read than readers who write.

Vatan ve millet, vatan ve millet oldukları için sevilir; bir din, din olarak münakaşa edilir, ret veya kabul edilir, yoksa hayatımıza getirecekleri kolaylıklar için değil…

Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew–in the incontestable way that children know things–that God was an author who’d imagined me, which is why I (and everyone else) existed:...

The book: an umbrella against ignorance

Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Because deep down, we’re all afraid of having peace. Because deep down we know we’re all poisoned. We’re more afraid of ourselves than we are of others. In that thinking, we deny ourselves the very...

Closed books are like closed eyes—you must open them to see anything.

The problem with books is that they end.

It’s a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch—all in a flicker of...

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I’ll still be with my books.

As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business. I am a storyteller. Daydreaming is the best part of my job.

Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I did, although, in my everyday life, I had nowhere to go...

books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose – electronic (even though that wasn’t for her) or printed, or audio – is...

When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don’t read much.

The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the...

I’m not courting death; I’ve far too many books left to read.

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.