A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

the art of reading, it occupies your mind no matter at any situation or mood you’re in..bringing you to completely different world, the enchanting world of the characters..giving you the best feeling after reading it..the...

Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to you. This may be difficult, because things like classes, workshops, writing programs, require...

You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.

I’m a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still...

There are many reluctant young readers who haven’t yet found books that make them laugh.

While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the ‘new’, which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex,...

Sin embargo, notábanse en esta gente una gentileza y un infantilismo extraordinarios, una incapacidad especial para el engaño, una disposición incansable para ayudarse y compadecerse mutuamente, que merecían con frecuencia tanto respeto y un aprecio...

Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.)

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

All the Midkemia stories are part of a ‘history of an imaginary place,’ so I’ve always known the cycle covered five rift wars. I just got to the end after 30 books. So there was...

On gray days, when it’s snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you’ll just read a good book all day, and he’d allow...

We buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)]

Bunlardan nasıl bir ahlak dersi çıkarmalı? Barış, Rabbimiz tarafından ne kadar sevilse de, ancak komşularınız da sizin gibi vicdanlıysa esas erdemlerden biri sayılır.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by...

I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.

Most of the great books on prayer are written by ‘experts’ – monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I’ve read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.

I’m a library user and I just don’t hoard books. To me, they’re for sharing.

The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.

Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I’m a work in progress.

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.

Books inspire us to dream, and then if we let them they will help us to achieve that dream!

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing in our hearts. To spread good books about, to sow them on fertile minds, to propagate understanding...

But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn’t matter here. What matters is what you’ve got in your gut.

I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind – mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.

Everything happens for a reason.

It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a bookseller.[Il est impossible, pour un Parisien, de résister au désir de feuilleter de vieux ouvrages...

The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride… Early and late,...

He does manage the bookstore, which is currently my favorite place on earth.” Her eyes glazed over. “All those books. If I married him, I could probably work there the rest of my life. Nothing...

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It’s incredibly underused.

I can talk to fish!” Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. “Ask one over for dinner,” Fang said, joining us.

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.

I’d like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at...

It’s not what you lift, it’s where you carry it.

In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that’s implied before it and the line...

Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished!

I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!

I’m not surprised that my books appeal to adults.

Each of my books is different. Deliberately… I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.