So here is my story, may it bringSome smiles and a tear or so,It happened once upon a time,Far away, and long ago,Outside the night wind keens and wails,Come listen to me, the Teller of...

Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It’s how I feel after a good dinner. That’s why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind...

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from...

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

Pretjerano čitanje ne čini nas pametnijim. Neki ljudi jednostavno ‘gutaju’ knjige. Oni to čine bez onih neophodnih intervala razmišljanja, koji su potrebni da se pročitano ‘svari’, preradi, usvoji, razumije. Kod čitanja lični doprinos je potreban...

Time…Once it’s gone, it belongs to the past.We do not hold on to the now, andWe do not treasure the future…We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is...

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the...

It followed then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human, for in the long sum of history they are one and the same...

Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could...

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

You could write the best book in the world but if nobody knows about it, it is nothing

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence…Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed...

The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What’s the point?

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is...

…Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda – to complicate reading and literacy so...

When one opens a book, one should also open one’s mind.

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don’t count-I mean something with print in it.

I hope I don’t write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself “When did they live?” I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live!...

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

A good book will surely become an event in your life.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

My characters don’t always know more than the reader does, because my readers get the best seat in Paper House.

There’s a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we’re even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won’t supply them.

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I’m still looking...

Well, right now I’m not dead. But when I am, it’s like…I don’t know, I guess it’s like being inside a book that nobody’s reading. […] An old one. It’s up on a library shelf,...

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

…there are pleasures to be had from books beyond being lightly entertained. There is the pleasure of being challenged; the pleasure of feeling one’s range and capacities expanding; the pleasure of entering into an unfamiliar...

Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To lose oneself in a book was to be slightly wacky, a little greedy and ultimately slothful....

We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

In the lie of truth lies the truth.

Nobody ever gave away a trophy for reading books

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

never replace the real thing”. Then I was given a Kindle as a present. That shut me up. Stock complaints about the inherent pleasure of ye olde format are bandied about whenever some new upstart...

La emoción no es una herramienta para resolver problemas.

The point is, Jenna, no one is normal or perfect like that house you see across the street. Everyone suffers from their own struggles, whether they’re big or small.

She’s a sailboat and I’m an anchor, pulling us both down.

Xas sighed. “But I don’t want to talk about God. Why do I? Sometimes I feel God is all over me like a pollen and I go about pollinating things with God.”Sobran opened his eyes...

It’s a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives...

You’ve read half the books in this house? This whole house?” “Well, approximately half.” Sticky said. “To be more accurate, I suppose I’ve read more like” – his eyes went up as he calculated –...