Keep going’ she told herself, ‘Don’t look back.’ But she looked anyways.

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that...

Untuk bisa membaca banyak buku diperlukan dua hal dimana uang dan waktu tidak termasuk diantaranya. Dua hal tersebut adalah gairah dan kerendahan hati bahwa kita banyak tak tahu.

If everyone could learn how to read books properly and how to use them as effective tools for daily living, the facilities of colleges could easily go out of existence without any loss to society.’...

She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some...

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

Cosa farei senza libri? Ne ho la casa piena, eppure non mi bastano mai. Vorrei avere una giornata di trentasei ore per poter leggere a mio piacere. Tengo libri di tutte le dimensioni: da tasca,...

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

My little hobby. Book Collecting. And yet, old friends, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books...

Even in the hottest fire there’s a bit of water. my The Opposite Of Magic.

Through a history book, I can time travel. Especially a history book from the future.

She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. ‘Cool flame tricks aside, there’s no competition.’He lifted his eyebrow. ‘Library wins?”Every single time.

Everything good I have written about can be summed up in two words: Ryan Lilly.” That’s a real quote I read in a real book. Trust me, I’m a writer.

My father never put a book into my hands and never forbade a book. Instead, he let me roam and graze, making my own more or less appropriate selections. I read gory tales of historic...

Reading (…) is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car!

Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of...

I need words and print… I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have...

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they’re doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

I’m the first to admit that I don’t write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.

The world of books captured my heart.

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.

The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking a book of a shelf calmed her. Opening the cover, feeling the paper’s...

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.

The spirits of the brain are directly connected to the testicles. This is why men who weary their imagination in books are less suitable for procreative functions…

These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them...

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Someone was coming through the velvet.He was pulling it wide, he was stepping onto Kestrel’s balcony—close, closer still as she turned and the curtain swayed, then stopped. He pinned the velvet against frame. He held...

People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of the stories as real, and some as fiction. But she honored...

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.

Books allow one to jump into another person’s imagination while also exploring their own!

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

I already know about human beings.

Libraries are full of ghosts, books being the most haunted things of all.

Look in your local Christian Bookstore. You could take most of the books there, throw them into the sea, and not lose anything valuable. The vast majority of them are just placebos that superficially attack...

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.

Orphan could no longer hear or see the shadows of the dead. He didn’t think they had perished. Most likely they were hiding now, somewhere in this landscape of books.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

No, but I do read a lot. I love to read. I could read for days and never stop. I use to be such a bookworm. I would barely look up to notice much of...

I have had my say, as he wished. Now the book belongs, as he points out, to the world he claims to speak for.

I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.