Gro Rollag was no beauty, but she was a strong capable young woman with a long face, prominent cheekbones, high forehead, and a kindly intelligent look in her rather narrow eyes. According to family lore,...

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

Books are the most important of all my possessions. They capture the thoughts, feelings, dreams and lives of their authors, welcoming us into their worlds and inspiring us to emulate their adventures.

I think of my books as mainstream and that’s were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational...

Viteza cu care se înnoiește tehnologia ne obligă să ne reorganizăm continuu și într-un ritm imposibil deprinderilor mentale.

Algunas veces lees un libro, sientes un extraño afán evangelizador y estás convencido de que este desastrado mundo no se recuperará hasta que todos los seres humanos lo lean. Luego están los libros de los...

Remain humble in your journey as an author and your audience will embrace you. Remain grateful for every publicity opportunity that comes your way, and the media will embrace you.

I’ve written 16 children’s books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I’d written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so...

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

Donde no hay libros hace frío. Vale para las casas, las ciudades, los países. Un frío cataclismo, un páramo de amnesia

I am obsessed with books.I am a book collector.

When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life.

You Can’t Be A Hero To The World, If Your Aren’t First A Hero In Your Home!

A book had always been a door to another world… a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.And that love...

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

Authors: The only people you thank for leaving you emotionally devastated.

If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.

Books allow one to jump into another person’s imagination while also exploring their own!

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

I already know about human beings.

This is a book. It is a book I found in a box. I found the box in the attic. The box was in the attic, under the eaves. The attic was hot and still....

…only then did I wake out of the book.

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I...

Your mail could’ve waited.” Daemon followed me into the kitchen. “What is it? Just books?”Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I sighed. People who didn’t heart books didn’t understand.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

My grandfather says that’s what books are for,” Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. “To travel without moving an inch.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

Suzanne Collins, it was such a big thing for me to make the handshake with her and to say, ‘You can trust me. I will not screw up your books. And I won’t let them...

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.

Here’s what I mean by the miracle of language. When you’re falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader’s heart and...

Books are never harmless…they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others as they teach us. In an invisible way their teaching...

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

Here’s what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full...

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

True fragrance speaks for itself. It does not require to be pointed out by the bearer.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It’s a schizophrenic business.

My books hold between their covers every story I’ve ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and,sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through everypainful...

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

Social networking is about building people up in your network NOT tearing them down

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice – read books.