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.

Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new...

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

..through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.

The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

It is you who must someday break through the protective polish of who you are, to become naked and powerful to who you can truly be.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS?

What is reading but silent conversation.

She’d absolutely adored the library-an entire building where anyone could take things they didn’t own and feel no remorse about it.

I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more writers knew that, the world would be saved a lot of...

I do not read for I have renounced life, I read because one life is just not enough for me.

Uno no termina de leer, aunque los libros se acaben, de la misma manera que uno no termina de vivir, aunque la muerte sea un hecho cierto.

I think the reason why I don’t read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to a drop of essence. You can read a book full of ten thousand...

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

A great book is one, which really don’t finish when it finishes.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I like to discover something new each day, to interpret the world in a way others might not, like a child might approach new experiences.

An editor doesn’t just read, he reads well, and reading well is a creative, powerful act. The ancients knew this and it frightened them. Mesopotamian society, for instance, did not want great reading from its...

Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they...

In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself;...

For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.

Digital distribution has widened the reading world.

Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.

A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space,...

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

When I am tired, I choose to drown in a billion dozens of words. Cause they always be my medicines. My books on a shelf.

As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns...

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

I was big into mythology when I was a kid – Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion. I hadn’t heard of the books, but I was told they were very...

I also wanted you to realize that even though the pain will always be there, I’m living proof you can get past this. Right now I know it feels impossible, but one day you’ll look...

I can’t imagine it’s easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.

I have no particular plan in life – and that’s something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I’d be left...

Jack reads too many books. He thinks we’re going to drive all year and have great adventures.

A story just isn’t a story without a dragon.

Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.

None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing...

Outside Styx’s apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and...

I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap...