The only book I’d read in the shower is Naked Lunch, because my bathtub is in the center of my kitchen. I make breakfast like I make love, and sometimes I’m so hungry I make...

There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me… I liked the creamy pages, the smell of ink, all the secrets locked inside.

There is nothing like discovering your own secrets in someone else’s story. Those thoughts and feelings you believed were too ugly or strange or idealistic or desperate or whimsical or hungry or sad they had...

She had forced herself to learn to read – picked up bits and pieces, here and there, from the very few teachers who had been patient with her; from looking at words while out and...

You can’t judge a book by it’s cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to...

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” What inspires you?

Winny didn’t know what he would do without his books, except probably go berserk and start killing people and making ashtrays out of their skulls even though he didn’t smoke and never would.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

there exist a great parity between things inside books and things outside books. What are inside books, are not all that different from what are outside books

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my heart leapt at the sight – row after row, shelf...

That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another – by collaborating with one another and creating your own network –...

My books are a word feast.

People don’t read any more. It’s a sad state of affairs. Reading’s the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it’s someone else’s vision, isn’t it?”[Interview in The Independent,...

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

Everything is an echo of something I once read.Dream, hope, and celebrate life!Love always comes back in a song.One thing we all have in common is a love for food and drink.Memories never die, and...

The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

…and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone...

Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it… a speelycaptor… at something doesn’t collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all...

Over the years I have collected so many books that, in aggregate, they can fairly be called a library.I don’t know what percentage of them I have read. Increasingly I wonder how many of them...

When I started this book last year, I had a small reception in mind. A few copies in my hand to share with close friends, maybe a small gathering… I never imagined that my book...

J. Alfred Prufrock measured his life out in coffee spoons. I measure mine out in pages.

This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just...

Once I had opened a book and read its pages, those characters could never be taken away from me. Even if the books were burned, they would still live on in my mind.

And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted...

You are what you eat and read.

People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline…The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the...

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a...

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

I’m a big believer in big books, and that doesn’t necessarily mean long books.

A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

La lecture de tous les bons livres est comme une conversation avec les plus honnêtes gens des siècles passés.

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of...

Some of the best advice my aunt gave me was if you want to find out more about something you read.

Escribir como forma de vida o de muerte, depende de la trama.

The worst feature of the Common Core is its anti-humanistic, utilitarian approach to education. It mistakes what a child is and what a human being is for. That is why it has no use for...

Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It’s more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to...

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That’s very likely to happen to my books, and if I’m extremely lucky, maybe one of my books will survive.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

I settle into my imagination so that I might be someone when the real world tells me I’m no one.

‘You’re there, but the books draw you in to whole other worlds. I mean, I know you study more serious things than the silly stories I read, but when you’re there, you can be anywhere....