The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It’s a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections – and it’s hidden inside an old palace...

But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions.

Reading is where the magic happens

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its ‘self-help’ section: ‘For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships...

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other...

I’m afraid I’ve degenerated into a bibliophile.

For Arthur, words gathered in waterfall thoughts that spilled off the page into the pools of imaginaton collecting in his head.

You’re loco, Carlos. Insane. Totally crazy… Most guys think they’re imperfect for still being virgins past the age of seventeen.

The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that he wasn’t real

I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it?

Besides it’s not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can’t you?

He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.

If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made.

The Book of Life, I’m still writing it—both literally and literarily. So far I’ve written the Table of Contents. Right now it’s more of a coffee table.

You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose!

He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and a small stack of crumpled magazines. “See, I even brought some things to...

Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know; for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties.

Son, I’m dying,” where I visualize the day my estranged dad calls me out of the blue to tell me he is dying, and in as many ways as possible I’ll offer up various responses...

Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that they can create [expansive or entrapping] realities over and over.~Kuan Yin

I think when you first start out, you’re writing books that are about your immediate place.

As a fiction writer, let me make it up, and let me make it up to you. I’ll pen our love story, if you’ll be my co-author.

Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.

All books are coloring books, if you are in possession of a childlike imagination, and a box of markers.

The Cloud”, because honestly, reading and rainy days go together like peanut butter and umbrellas.

I can’t write a scene unless I’ve visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that’s why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them...

What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object–but a human thought caught and bound, made concrete through sacred technology....

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.

In my living room there are two large bookcases, each one eight feet tall, and they have about five hundred books between them. If I step up to a shelf and look at the books...

The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and...

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Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

Can you think of a better way to tell?

I don’t read books regularly, because I’m always writing them. I’ve written 30 books, thousands of pages.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I’d come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by...

The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect...

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great...

Of course you can trust me,” Jake Hix said. “We read the same books.

Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.

Books end. Stories never do.

The books were a private part of me that I carried inside and guarded and didn’t talk to anybody about; as long as I had the books I could convince myself I was different from...

We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity–governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them.

A Decision That Can Change Your Life Forever, Can Happen In Just One Second.

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going...