There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

LibrariesAreNeccessaryGardens,UnsurpassedAtGrowingExcitement

No, I have never had a problem finding books to read. But I have had a problem finding people who understand what it’s like to really LOVE reading. Maybe even need it. People who associate...

When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this...

Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story....

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required – learn vitally anything – by the close study of books.

I don’t believe in writer’s block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It’s the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes...

My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me...

But it’s not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.

If you’re trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it’s the graveyard of people whose books haven’t been wanted.

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams

I don’t laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Study nature, not books.

I am grateful to all my readers; you inspired me to keep writing.

I hate books that are hard to read. It takes me a month to finish it and by that time I’ve forgotten some of the characters and what happened at the beginning. But then again,...

The first book I ever read that made me cry. I was seven and hadn’t realized books could do that. Just finish you like that. I was sitting in a beanbag chair in the school...

Never underestimate a bookworm

the writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man’s proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these...

I am beginning to be sorry that I ever undertook to write this book. Not that it bores me; I have nothing else to do; indeed, it is a welcome distraction from eternity. But the...

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision...

If you could describe my son in 3 words, what would you say? – Sweet. Cute. Funny. – That could be a description of a puppy she says dryly.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,’The medicines of the soul.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. As a teenager, you get wrapped up in your friends and sexual stuff, and the imaginative life...

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent...

I think we should always remember that reading — the experience of a book — is a very private, very personal kind of thing. Sometimes the best response to such an experience is: silence.

I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don’t get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness....

People talk about books that write themselves, and it’s a lie. Books don’t write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you’d believe.

When you’re alone and you feel sad, try reading a book. Try touching someone’s heart. Try to imagine what they were thinking, what they wanted to convey. If you do that, you might get something...

[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and...

That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

In all well-written books, there is much that is good which is not dazzling; and these shallow critics should be taught, that it is for the embellishment of the more tame and uninteresting parts of...

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, ‘Nobody under 40,’ or ‘Nobody under 25.’ With my books, it always has been, and continues...

While we are living, our lives are like that of an open book, still being written. Eventually, our book closes for us, and to others, it will be as if we never existed at all....

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

When someone gives me either a democratic or republican pamphlet, I throw it in their face. I’m a librarian, damn it! We only take book donations.

An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don’t swear, they tell their mothers everything.

She had a grocer’s faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts.

Evet, gün geliyor bıkıyorum sendenAma İstanbul’dan bıkmak gibi bir şey bu,Git, istersen, cüzam kap bir yerlerden,Görmek istersen, nicedir, tutkunluğumu.

Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them–I look upon good novels–as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and...

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

Kiss me hot,heavy,wet & angry with that attitude like you do when your mouth yells it hates me but your tongue screams it can’t wait for me. Hug me, touch me, submit to me with...

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to...

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Like Petrach’s, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I’m grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I feel that I abuse the privilege.