Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that they can create [expansive or entrapping] realities over and over.~Kuan Yin

I think when you first start out, you’re writing books that are about your immediate place.

As a fiction writer, let me make it up, and let me make it up to you. I’ll pen our love story, if you’ll be my co-author.

Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.

All books are coloring books, if you are in possession of a childlike imagination, and a box of markers.

The Cloud”, because honestly, reading and rainy days go together like peanut butter and umbrellas.

I can’t write a scene unless I’ve visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that’s why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them...

What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object–but a human thought caught and bound, made concrete through sacred technology....

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.

In my living room there are two large bookcases, each one eight feet tall, and they have about five hundred books between them. If I step up to a shelf and look at the books...

The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and...

Bir kitabı okuyup bitirdiğiniz zaman, bunu yazan keşke çok yakın bir arkadaşım olaydı da, canım her istediğinde onu telefonla arayıp konuşabilseydim diyorsanız, o kitap bence gerçekten iyidir.

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

Can you think of a better way to tell?

I don’t read books regularly, because I’m always writing them. I’ve written 30 books, thousands of pages.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I’d come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by...

The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect...

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great...

Of course you can trust me,” Jake Hix said. “We read the same books.

Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.

Books end. Stories never do.

The books were a private part of me that I carried inside and guarded and didn’t talk to anybody about; as long as I had the books I could convince myself I was different from...

We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity–governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them.

A Decision That Can Change Your Life Forever, Can Happen In Just One Second.

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going...

Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.

Hey you, read a book. Now.

I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the...

The fault I find in our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other everyday, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything...

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world’s friend.

Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.

French Louis Seymour of the West Canada Creek, who knew how to survive all alone in a treacherous wilderness, and Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt of New York City and Raquette Lake, who was richer than...

Books don’t need batteries.

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

Books have power to bring you glory or doom, it all depends on perception.

~I gripped the knife even tighter. Far off in the distance, I could still hear them speaking, but only one thing was clear in my mind: Trevor, my father, was going to die.From that moment...

I’m glad you came.

Steadily, the room shrank, till the book thief could touch the shelves within a few small steps. She ran the back of her hand along the first shelf, listening to the shuffle of her fingernails...

A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows,To listen to its story.

There are more writers who read than readers who write.

Vatan ve millet, vatan ve millet oldukları için sevilir; bir din, din olarak münakaşa edilir, ret veya kabul edilir, yoksa hayatımıza getirecekleri kolaylıklar için değil…

Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew–in the incontestable way that children know things–that God was an author who’d imagined me, which is why I (and everyone else) existed:...