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.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

He’s at the library, I think. Safe and sound in his world of books… Maybe he’ll write one someday.

Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel – a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something...

Wer niemals ganze Nachmittage lang mit glühenden Ohren und verstrubbeltem Haar über einem Buch saß und las und las und die Welt um sich her vergaß, nicht mehr merkte, daß er hungrig wurde oder fror...

mind-boggling” moments, when I would doubt myself and what I was writing. It has been said that we, ourselves, are our own worst critics.All the hard work had payed off though, and I created a...

I don’t think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won’t learn anything unless you enjoy it.

What sort of a book would you like to read next?” she asked.

I love the smell of a new book, but I prefer inhaling fresh bottles of ink and glue. They get me more lightheaded – unless I read the book.

Everybody comes to the library naked. That’s why they come here – to dress themselves in books.

A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.

I am an Author a person who plays with words so they can dance in the minds of others

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician’s Book.

I get really excited if I think I’m going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven’t found before and I think they’ll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the...

After each book the world changes in my eyes, i have become more suspicious and eager at the same time.

Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged

Life happened because I turned the pages.

Planting a flower’s like opening a book, because either way you’re starting something. And your garden’s your library.

Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer...

Nežinau, su kuo galėčiau palyginti ilgo skaitymo malonumą, nebent su skraidymais sapnuose, kai pakyli aukštai į orą, kai nereikia net pastangų plasnoti, sklendi sau, ir tiek. Toks lengvas, toks laimingas ir nenorintis nusileisti ant žemės.

For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.

You’re a hopeless romantic,” said Faber. “It would be funny if it were not serious. It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be...

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Sulphurous wind gusted in his wake; the dust of the street swirled and the folds of his black coat flapped against his thin body.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in...

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.

I think of literature – she wrote – as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but cannot possibly reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch...

Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.

Elend: I kind of lost track of time…Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved.

Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is explicit or before it sees its object, manifests itself as boredom or some...

I’m usually a bit awkward in houses that I haven’t been to before, so it’s a way to not look weird. If I find something I’ve read before it automatically makes me more comfortable.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

I’d like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate…. And I’d like to have the most enormous library, and I’d like to think that I...

A book a week I heave a sigh;That Slogan’s peremptory cryI will not hear, I will not heed.How can They say that I should needThe book They bid me weekly buy?But Slogans change, as days...

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings about books–I’m talking about my friends and myself–went beyond love. It was as...

If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don’t care who reads them.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines — it’s hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta.

You don’t know anything, but I know even less.