So — I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have read, and I have not read those things which I ought to have...

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?” asked Mrs. Dodypol. “It depends,” says I, “how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

Cemeteries are full of unfulfilled dreams… countless echoes of ‘could have’ and ‘should have’… countless books unwritten… countless songs unsung… I want to live my life in such a way that when my body is...

The library would’ve cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that...

Every heart must have its privatebestseller book.

I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up...

…ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That’s finesse.

I want to print books by people in the film industry.

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.

Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.

You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because they only germinate after fire, and sometimes the burned landscape...

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.

There is beauty in the art, and a story in the words! spk

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books...

Well, I’ve always read in bed, in early years by candlelight, succeeded by lamplight, gaslight, and now electric light, and I’ll probably be found dead there with some ponderous tome or book of poems on...

We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice.

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered...

Reading may be the last secretive behavior that is neither pathological or prosecutable. It is certainly the last refuge from the real-time epidemic. For the stream of a narrative overflows the banks of the real....

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

Lire un bon livre, ça redonne envie de vivre, ça vous donne envie de partir, A la recherche du temps perdu.

You tell a kid he doesn’t like to read, and he’ll believe you

There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never Enough Shelf Space.

You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.

Evidently, I’d suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don’t realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that Galilei ascertained the mechanical principles of...

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.

Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they’re complete, not leading...

The reality is that people reach for a Bible when they’re feeling lost. But if they hadn’t shelved it, maybe they wouldn’t have gotten lost.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

In a bookstore you can find me in the romance section, because I’m not a lover, I’m a reader.

Don’t take purposeless people as your leaders. Their life is like an empty book with a nice cover paper and you have attempted to buy it. Of which use will it be to you for...

We want the author to give us answers when all he can do is give us desires.

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

I try to satisfy the desires that people have to have their books personalized. That’s a value, or feature, of bibliophilia that may vanish. How do you get your e-book signed? The idea of people...

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page

There is something nice about a library, isn’t there?” Mr. Curtis said. He nodded and took in the familiar scenery. “The scent of ink and worn, dusty pages.

He says he knows someone isn’t from the same race as he when that person looks at his library and asks, ‘Have you read all of these?’ A true book lover knows that, no, he...

The real world dissolved and I was free to drift in fantasy, living a thousand lives, each one more powerful, more accessible, and more real than my own

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.

Books are another kind of magic.

Dr. Manning said he’d thought at first it might be sleeping sickness, or even narcolepsy, whatever that was, but – no, Pete was healthy enough physically. Manoel growled that the boy was bone-lazy, spending his...

Apart from such chaotic classics as these, my own taste in novel reading is one which I am prepared in a rather especial manner, not only to declare, but to defend. My taste is for...

Books inspire me to create a better reality.

I like to write books where I get a question on the radio, and I don’t have an answer for it.

Books allow you to take flight, unlike the chicken wings I stapled to my back before eating them.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.