La emoción no es una herramienta para resolver problemas.

The point is, Jenna, no one is normal or perfect like that house you see across the street. Everyone suffers from their own struggles, whether they’re big or small.

She’s a sailboat and I’m an anchor, pulling us both down.

Xas sighed. “But I don’t want to talk about God. Why do I? Sometimes I feel God is all over me like a pollen and I go about pollinating things with God.”Sobran opened his eyes...

It’s a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives...

You’ve read half the books in this house? This whole house?” “Well, approximately half.” Sticky said. “To be more accurate, I suppose I’ve read more like” – his eyes went up as he calculated –...

It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit, and a test, too.

One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches....

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

Don’t you understand Tink? You mean more to me than anything in this whole world!

Such places exist among the endless abodes of every major city, places that seem to be sanctuaries from the present, immune to the hustle and bustle, the sound and fury that in the end change...

We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only...

Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books.

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nosebetween the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

…I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian here as well.”But you have just told me you were sexton here!”So I...

You could probably live without mastering the ability. But the ability to read those books…it’ll introduce you to new worlds and new thoughts. You can learn a lot about a man from the books he...

The best thing about being a writer is that ‘work’ is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

Art books are filled with interesting images. And that’s cool and all, but I look more for the nudes.

I keep my motivational book collection in the fridge. Hey, Who Moved My Cheese?! Did somebody let grandpa out of his cage again?

He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What...

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.

A library of mostly unread books is far more inspiring than a library of books already read. There’s nothing more exciting than finishing a book, and walking over to your shelves to figure out what...

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up – developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

I have always kept a stack of library books next to my bed as a lifeline. If I ever woke in the middle of the night too scared to move or too sad to roll...

I don’t know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple...

Books may be irrelevant until it’s relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there...

The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight.

I’m really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don’t take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you.

The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery where you had company and sympathy but your thoughts were your own.

Good books makes good life.

Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?

The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it’s perfect. It’s this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It’s not, I’m pretty sure, actually true, but that makes...

We read to learn.

Watch me go. Watch me. Because you said i couldn’t. Because you thought I wouldn’t. Go on, cry now. Cry.

Reading a book is something you do to yourself.

We, and I think I’m speaking for many writers, don’t know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day,...

I remember that feeling when I was a young reader: finding books that were set in Sydney with Australian characters was incredibly exciting.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

Before I had a chance to feel too sorry for myself, I turned toward the front of the cabin and found the bookcases carved right into the wall. Hundreds of leather-bound volumes rested in dim...