In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself;...

For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.

Digital distribution has widened the reading world.

Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.

A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space,...

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

When I am tired, I choose to drown in a billion dozens of words. Cause they always be my medicines. My books on a shelf.

As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns...

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

I was big into mythology when I was a kid – Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion. I hadn’t heard of the books, but I was told they were very...

I also wanted you to realize that even though the pain will always be there, I’m living proof you can get past this. Right now I know it feels impossible, but one day you’ll look...

I can’t imagine it’s easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.

I have no particular plan in life – and that’s something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I’d be left...

Jack reads too many books. He thinks we’re going to drive all year and have great adventures.

A story just isn’t a story without a dragon.

Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.

None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing...

Outside Styx’s apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and...

I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap...

Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin’ 90k word novel is the hard part.

My books didn’t fit a marketing niche.

A country whose citizens do not read is already late because “reading” is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt knowledge is the gateway to personal transformation. If you don’t read,...

Why do you want a new truth when you do not practice what you already know?Far better to read a few books and make them your own than to read many books quickly and superficially.

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the...

I don’t like to get scared – it’s not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren’t very scary.

I’m an open book—an open book I’m still writing and editing. My book is a romance novel, sort of like The Secret.

If you’re going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very...

I can read in bed all night long. I can watch movies all night long. And I can have sex for literally minutes.

A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think.

Going out in Paris was like going out in the ’30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I’d seen in books at my grandparents’ house, only it was our generation.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

I won’t be sad too often,If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line ‘Don’t palm all your abuses [of language upon me]’ was possibly too rude. ‘It’s in the book,’ I said. He didn’t hit me.

I am sure Lady Russell would like him. He is just Lady Russell’s sort. Give him a book, and he will read all day long.’ ‘Yes, that he will!’ exclaimed Mary tauntingly. ‘He will sit...

Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

A book called Life of Silence would get everyone talking. I should write it, using invisible ink. Or to really make it see-through, I should hire a ghostwriter.

One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures....

Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.

Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That’s why they are so powerful.

The only thing in life that’s really interesting is the contest. We are all contestants–whether we admit it or not. If I read 20 pages of a book and they’re no good, I put it...

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Imagine that the genome is a book.There are twenty-three chapters, called CHROMOSOMES.Each chapter contains several thousand stories, called GENES.Each story is made up of paragraphs, called EXTONS, which are interrupted by advertisements called INTRONS.Each paragraph...