He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

For eight years I dreamed of fire. Trees ignited as I passed them; oceansburned. The sugary smoke settled in my hair as I slept, the scent like a cloud left on my pillow as I...

Max had once read in one of his father’s books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no...

Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means that at the current publishing rate, ten million new books will...

Is that what those were?” Gerry blithely replied.

I never thought I’d fall madly in love with literature.

You don’t buy poetry. (Neither do I.)Why?You cannot afford it? Bosh! You spendEditions de luxe on a thirsty friend.You can buy any one of the poetry bunchFor the price you pay for a business lunch....

Books: open them. Your mind is calling for new horizons of knowledge and wonders.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I’d buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

How many books are there?” said Masklin.”Hundreds! Thousands!””Do you know what they’re all about?”Gurder looked at him blankly. “Do you know what you’re saying?” he said.”No. But I want to find out.””They’re about everything! You’d...

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

Apa gunanya banyak baca bukuKalau mulut kau bungkam melulu

They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book

Make sure he’s worth it. She had thought it so many times it had become a part of her. Like her tongue filling her mouth, so this tenet filled her being.

I like paper.

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn’t making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I’d have...

If I may paraphrase Hobbes’s well-known aphorism, I would say that ‘books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

For your birthday I’ll give you 100 copies of your least favorite author’s book, and they’ll all be autographed. Now, should I sign the cover, or the inside flap?

more to be a human being with

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. ‘Tis my mind that is starving.

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...

Bir kitabı okuyup bitirdiğiniz zaman, bunu yazan keşke çok yakın bir arkadaşım olaydı da, canım her istediğinde onu telefonla arayıp konuşabilseydim diyorsanız, o kitap bence gerçekten iyidir.

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.