When a day goes by and I haven’t written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.

Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you’re ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can....

My only wish is to be buried with my books.

What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore it knows it’s not fooling a soul.

The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.

I think ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you’re in it.

The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don’t, halfway...

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the...

Books motivate me, words inspire me, but humans make me face realty.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

When a person reaches the end of a book and says, ‘I want to read that again,’ what he’s actually saying is that he wants to mentally merge with his favorite character and stroll among...

Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live...

In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to...

Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows–far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests,...

BIG books are better. There, I said it and it’s true. 

Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I had lived in, had visited and would visit again, just as all the...

A good book is an event in my life.

Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Books,’ I say sleepily. ‘They don’t change either. If you read a book and look at it again later on, it’s still the same thing. But it’s exciting all over again.

Pages entertain me more than pictures do.

But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we...

Just as an apple a day keeps the doctor away,a book a week keeps the mind ever sleek

Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.

I put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most of them were some permutation on self-help. Going by how popular these books...

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes,...

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else’s story.

People perish. Books are immortal.

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

It’s a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That’s the most you can ever do.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with...

I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need...

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Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.

If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you’re more intelligent.

The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. It is unafraid of what other people think…It does not adapt either its pace...

Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.

Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other...

Right now, we’re living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You’ve done the time but wonder if it’s going to satisfy the judge.

Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch...

What’s the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)

Writers shouldn’t fear criticism. Instead, they should fear silence. Criticism is healthy. It gets people thinking about your work and, even better, it gets them talking and arguing. But as for silence — it is...

School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able,...