I’m glad you came.

Steadily, the room shrank, till the book thief could touch the shelves within a few small steps. She ran the back of her hand along the first shelf, listening to the shuffle of her fingernails...

A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows,To listen to its story.

There are more writers who read than readers who write.

Vatan ve millet, vatan ve millet oldukları için sevilir; bir din, din olarak münakaşa edilir, ret veya kabul edilir, yoksa hayatımıza getirecekleri kolaylıklar için değil…

Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew–in the incontestable way that children know things–that God was an author who’d imagined me, which is why I (and everyone else) existed:...

The book: an umbrella against ignorance

Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Because deep down, we’re all afraid of having peace. Because deep down we know we’re all poisoned. We’re more afraid of ourselves than we are of others. In that thinking, we deny ourselves the very...

Closed books are like closed eyes—you must open them to see anything.

The problem with books is that they end.

It’s a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch—all in a flicker of...

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I’ll still be with my books.

As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business. I am a storyteller. Daydreaming is the best part of my job.

Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I did, although, in my everyday life, I had nowhere to go...

books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose – electronic (even though that wasn’t for her) or printed, or audio – is...

When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don’t read much.

The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the...

I’m not courting death; I’ve far too many books left to read.

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

I’ve decided that it’s possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back. It’s sad, perhaps, but not tragic,...

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers – lovely, but dead.

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.

A book lives a new life every time it is read.

If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.

The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside what we usually think of as good reasons. It’s asking us to stop...

Experience is the best teacher.

I even love the smell of books.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.

I am very careful about who I choose to build memories with. Some of them might last a lifetime.

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people’s lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life […].

love was never meant to bejust a metaphorbetween the pages of poetry.

Lezen hielp – de papieren wereld bood houvast die ik in de echte niet had. Boeken leerden me dat er een werkelijkheid was voorbij deze, wat troost bood. Perspectief. Ze lieten me zien wie ik...

There’s no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

For me the greatest joy is to be able to submerge myself for a few hours every day in a human time that otherwise would be alien to me. A lifetime is not enough.

Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious wayto feel alive.

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people… I got the feeling that Julián was living in the...

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

Forever encased in the amber of a writer’s prose.