– Io non potrò mai darti quel genere di sensazioni, mi dispiace.– Ed io non le voglio … perché ho capito che è facile innamorarsi di un mito. Chi non s’innamorerebbe di un attore bello...

Visitors might notice that Jacksonville has lots of trees. And there would be more trees, if I didn’t go around chopping so many down, in anticipation of my upcoming paper company. (I plan on self-publishing...

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied...

Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it occurred to me that this was the pleasure and mystery of reading, as...

It is because of this sea between us. The earth has never, up to now, separated us. But, ever since yesterday, there has been something in this nonetheless real, perfectly Atlantic, salty, slightly rough sea...

Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.

I stubbed my toe just as someone dropped a book into the inside drop box. As I yelped and howled in pain, a child on the other side said, ‘Mommy, I think we hurt the...

I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I’d like them to be.

All thoughts, secret or spoken, belong in a coffee table book written in Braille, so you can really feel the emotions.

Sections in the bookstore- Books You Haven’t Read- Books You Needn’t Read- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read...

Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world.

That’s a compliment for anyone who knows the freedom and clarity of losing their mind,” he reaffirmed her.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

Ida Says ‘I do’ in Idaho.” It would be about a divorce in Washington State, and the protagonist would be a woman, though I’m not sure what her name should be.

When Suzie introduced Helen, she told the audience that one of the best things about books is that they are an interactive art form: that while the author may describe in some detail how a...

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Sometimes God’s way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails that champion gifted, foreign poets and decorate the library in beautiful, melancholy fashion! My God, this universe is nothing to snicker at!

Don’t forget, and don’t let your reader forget, that the small world in which you have held him for the last hour or two hasn’t ended. Be aware, and make him aware, that tomorrow all...

But here’s a great thing about stories: they can be retold.

This capacity to fold the completely weird into daily life, to make the aliens ourselves, is a quality I look for in a good, weird book.

Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages… and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else’s sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your...

There wasn’t a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words…

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

You’re either reading a book or you’re not.

Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals.

Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.

Attitude Is More Important Than Talent!

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn’t have any excuse to be stupid.

Around three a.m. he feels a presence in the room. He sees, for the pulse of a moment, a figure at the foot of his bed, against the wall or painted onto it perhaps, not...

Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.

Knihy sú najlepšími druhmi človeka, lebo hovoria len vtedy, keď chceme a keď si želáme, tak mlčia. Dávajú všetko a nechcú nič.

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

Life is’nt about getting everything you want the instant you want it.Some thing are worth waiting for.

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of...

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh.”[Afterword]

We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand...

My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you’re never around assholes. That’s the two things to really fight for in life.

Books were safer than other people anyway.