Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

A book called Life of Silence would get everyone talking. I should write it, using invisible ink. Or to really make it see-through, I should hire a ghostwriter.

One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures....

Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.

Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That’s why they are so powerful.

The only thing in life that’s really interesting is the contest. We are all contestants–whether we admit it or not. If I read 20 pages of a book and they’re no good, I put it...

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Imagine that the genome is a book.There are twenty-three chapters, called CHROMOSOMES.Each chapter contains several thousand stories, called GENES.Each story is made up of paragraphs, called EXTONS, which are interrupted by advertisements called INTRONS.Each paragraph...

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren’t any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader’s head,...

But ‘I worked hard on this’ doesn’t exempt you from criticism. Those harsh reviews aren’t about anyone being out to get me. It’s not an Authors vs. Reviewers thing. It’s people taking the time to...

There’s a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don’t otherwise have. But I don’t find that my hand reaches out for it the...

En resolución, él se enfrascó tanto en su lectura, que se le pasaban las noches leyendo de claro en claro, y los días de turbio en turbio, y así, del poco dormir y del mucho...

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

The ability to retain a child’s view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare – and a person who has these...

Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived.

Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones. He’ll often take better care of his books than of his own health;...

In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the novels. She had read any number of them, from...

Six men control almost all the media in the United States–book publishing, magazines, television, movie studios, newspapers, and radio. They are not friendly toward feminism, which has almost disappeared from the surface of our society....

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.

This is the most important thing about me–I’m a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and read. I’m...

People don’t really read your books, they only say they do, to keep you from feeling bad.

We have no time to waste on insignificant books, hollow books, books that are there to please…We want books that cost their authors a great deal, books where you can feel the years of work,...

You are one of us, one of those who knows without knowing, and one who will live and die in dreams that blend with this world. No, I am no gypsy, just one who has...

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

I’m a book girl–I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not...

The American writer and dilettante Logan Pearsall Smith once said: ‘Some people think that life is the thing; but I prefer reading.’ When I first came across this, I thought it witty; now I find...

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera – or an NHL game.

I am happy to keep working on books because I’m always reading, and I’m always trying to fall in love.

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all...

Where books had been a comfort before, they became a necessity, old books best of all: thick heavy tomes with stories that spread and twisted through other worlds, where he could walk like a ghost...

Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.

Maybe it’s not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book.

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it’s been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading — once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive — is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a...

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child’s hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe...

Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!If you think you can’t, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

I had to go back and reread the page a few times. As I read it, I kept drifting out of the book, out of the booth, and coasting on the green crest of the...

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.