A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most...

One can never have enough socks,” said Dumbledore. “Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr.

Every book is a revolution. Books are our ticket out of boredom, despair, loneliness—but also ignorance.

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction – books and a sense of irony.

I couldn’t get to sleep. The book lay nearby. A thin object on the divan. So strange. Between two cardboard covers were noises, doors, howls, horses, people. All side by side, pressed tightly against one...

Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of...

please,Tana,please.’ -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and...

All I’ve done is give you a book,” she said. “You have to have the courage to learn what’s inside it.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.

There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy...

So you went from one reader to two readers?” you’d be absolutely correct. And after I had congratulated you on your keen guess, I’d thank you for being 50% of my reading base.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and through stories that life is saved.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or because it takes time to distill what we’ve read before...

The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume.

Note to self: don’t throw things at girls.

The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often; books don’t

I have to live my books before I write them.

..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,..

A man can never have too many books. Neither can he have too many fountain pens, hats, fishing rods, waistcoats, tea caddies, paintings or whatever helps him to feel at home in his surroundings and...

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Waiting to be discovered, hoping to be seen, wishing someone else would do the work, wanting to make it big while dreaming of being rich and famous just like your heroes is submissive, passive, foolish,...

In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional poetry but in other poetry as well,...

For where books, for instance, always offer a thousand times more than they are, television offers exactly what it is, its essential immediacy, its ever-evolving, always-in-progress superficiality.

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]