I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside...

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.

The best horror novels open up, “It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air.

Anyone who can see will see you beautiful.

The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of schizophrenia down, and I want to put down the stigma surrounding...

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

You Can’t Change Your Life… Until You Change Your Heart, and You Can’t Change Your Heart… Until You Change Your Mind!

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me...

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

That one special book that takes you on a trip you never expected to go on…

She didn’t really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle. Even when they didn’t fit together, they revealed a little more about what kind of...

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life?

Entrei numa livraria. Pus-me a contar os livros que há para ler e os anos que terei de vida. Não chegam! Não duro nem para metade da livraria! Deve haver certamente outras maneiras de uma...

I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.

Libraries should be open to all – except the censor.[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath gets slower and deeper as I peruse the shelves. I believe that books...

Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

Because, as I would always tell myself so many years later, lying here in my bed: You can’t start out again in life, that’s a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book...

There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a...

Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.

We break our huddle and Eight immediately transforms into one of his massive avatars. His handsome features melt away, replaced by the snarling face and golden mane of a lion. He grows to about twelve...

Non c’è nessun libro così cattivo che non abbia in sé qualcosa di buono.

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

Maelyn smiled. If books could have litters, she’d be just as happy.

I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.” –Alison Bechdel

I don’t just write books. I climb inside and live there.

Every 10 years you’re a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They’re full of new rewards.

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

Reading…inspires,enlightens,nurtures,refines,educates,informs,transforms,persuades,challenges,engages, entertains,mesmerizes,captivates,gratifies,rewards,quiets,and calms.Granted, it won’t get the dishes done,but sacrifices must be made.

I don’t like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way – in my opinion – to make good readers is to let kids choose their own...

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

By way of this unprecedented, unbridled literary promiscuity, I have made some pleasant discoveries.

I love when I finish reading a chapter that I wrote and my cheeks hurt from smiling and all I can utter is, ‘Wow.’

Systematisches Lesen ist kaum von Nutzen. Offizielle Bücherlisten (der Klassiker, der Literaturgeschichte, der zensurierten oder empfohlenen Bücher, der Bibliothekskataloge) können per Zufall den einen oder anderen nützlichen Hinweis geben. Die beste Anleitung bieten persönliche Launen...

Honestly, I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl’s life. Like, no. The girl needs to change her own life.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far...

a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

Sometimes you wish to escape to another part of the book.You stop reading and riffle the pages, catching sight of the story as it races ahead, not above the world but through it, through forests...

It has long been my belief that everyone’s library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library,...

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

I don’t want to be around people who accept me as is, in my unrefined state of becoming. I consistently want people around me who push and encourage me to be my ultimate best, who...

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books – this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one’s life becomes very small.

Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it’s like tearing off the bandages.