In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their...

Give at least fifteen minutes everyday to reading. Sometimes, we spend a lot of time watching television – surfing through channels; not really watching anything in particular. Fifteen minutes out of that time is not...

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.”(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)

All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.

If a book cover has raised lettering, metallic lettering, or raised metallic lettering, then it is telling the reader: Hello. I am an easy-to-read work on espionage, romance, a celebrity, and/or murder. To readers who...

All my friends are in my books.

Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.

You are the first of your kind. Books will be written about you. Be the legend you are meant to be. – Astral

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him...

Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy – all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a...

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers… only they don’t critique me and then get up for coffee.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

Just because you’re breathing, doesn’t mean you’re alive.

Life & Deathenergy & Peaceif I stoped todayit was funEven the terrible pains that have burn me & scarred my soul it was worth it for having been allowed to walked where I’ve walked. Which...

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother’s house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.

I haven’t read much, but it still seems impossible to me that anyone, no matter how much he read, could’ve read every book in the world. There must be so many of them, and I...

Suddenly the reader’s eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: -Why are you crying if everything in that book isn’t true?- And the reader replied: -I know; but what...

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

The most comfortable place for a tired mind is in the lap of a book.

Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

I don’t ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

Dear Literary World, Sorry for breaking down your door…I’ll pay for that!!! Since I’m here and planning to stay a while, let me tell you some stories!!

I don’t really read books. Wish I did.

Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.

Allowing yourself to stop reading a book – at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end – is a rite of passage in a reader’s life, the literary equivalent...

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

Either you will be you or you will not be at all.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you’ve traveled with them through every page?

A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

For her a day of pampering meant comic books, black liquorice, serious exercise, veggie curry and, above all, solitude.

There is a book for every walk of life. No matter the age, race, or gender there is something that will appeal to you.

But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books...

We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He thinks that every public library should be dynamited. Another thinks that moving pictures will destroy the book trade....

Travel teaches as much as books.

The use, not the reading, of books makes us wise.

He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape’s eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were...

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before...

Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind, the world of books is the greatest. Every child, scrawling his first letters...

Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in...

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are...

In the first play, the crisis is Thomas More. In the second it’s Anne Boleyn. In the third book, and the third play, it’s crisis every day, an overlapping series of only just negotiable horrors....

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

It was the yearning she related to. Shriver seemed to understand the specific human pain of wanting and pushing away at the same time. It left her with a gorgeous ache, and when she turned...

How to Lose Weight Through the Miracle of Diarrhea. That sounds like a bestselling Romance novel title if I’ve ever heard one. I’m a sucker for a good love story.