Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a...

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

It is the mess that readers love. The fact that sometimes the people who love us the most aren’t people we’re related to, but people who join our family later. The book acknowledges how difficult...

The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial sections, things, that is, which the spirit can assimilate to itself. After which...

You could write a book about things that you can’t find on-line.

I understand that when people read my books that there’s something there – but I don’t identify with it.

…through reading, the modern man succeeds in obtaining an “escape from time” comparable to the “emegence from time” effected by myths. (…) Reading projects him out if his personal duration and incorporates him into other...

Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools...

Hay veces en las que alguien confía lo suficiente en ti como para contarte sus secretos y eso hace que sea más fácil confiar en él.

I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

One life to read!

Besides, Fi was convinced that instinct could determine a body’s literary needs, just as physical cravings pointed to dietary shortfalls. She’d experienced it herself more than once among the library’s dense shelves; not knowing what...

Writing is the voice of the heart’ Julia Suzuki

Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

And for the next long years of my life, I tried to remember only the reading, not the terrible things that happened to me as I came and went up and down the stairs. The...

It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don’t have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables...

How about a man?” she retorts.

OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2… priceless.

No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them...

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Millions of pages cloaked in dust and inspiration and wisdom.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

A Million Copies Sold,” did you ever wonder who bought them?

When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is still possible to experience an instant sense of freedom and privacy is anywhere...

Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

There are good books which are only for adults.There are no good books which are only for children.

My breath catches, responding to an unfamiliar pull in my chest, an ache in my soul. I shouldn’t miss him, but I do; this boy who had every right to pull that trigger, and instead...

Everybody in the world ought to care for books, and if there are some who do not, why that is a perfectly convincing reason why books ought to be given to them, to be a...

There’s only about about 6 to 8 inches between an open book and a human being’s heart. A lot can happen in those 7 inches. Perspectives, fresh perspectives occur and minds expand, and I love...

…books were better than travel.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It’s almost worse.

Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I’ve read all of his books.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests...

I cannot explain love. I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment...

I read in self-defense.

And books, they offer one hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

Not one-tenth of them. I don’t suppose you use your Sevres china every day?

Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don’t care. Old is when you don’t want...

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

You read a book for the story, for each of its words,” Gordy said, “and you draw your cartoons for the story, for each of the words and images. And, yeah, you need to take...

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

We live for books.

Reading Gives Us Some Place To Go, When We Have To Stay Where We Are.

The contents of someone’s bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.”(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987)