An extrovert looks at a stack of books and sees a stack of papers, while an introvert looks at the same stack and sees a soothing source of escape.

they’re simple stories. Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . It’s just that...

Objects and ObjectivesTo contemplate LEGO. Many colours. Many shapes. Many inventive and useful shapes. Plastic. A versatile and practical substance. Symbolic of the resourcefulness of man. Oil taken from the depths of the very earth....

Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading.

Dünyanın bir tarafında bir yerde, bir piyango çekiliyor, savaş yapılıyor ve hepimizin alınyazısı da böylece uzak­larda belirtiliyordu.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who’ve never made any money in business.

I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story....

Can you tell me what happened?”Her lips thinned as she shook her head. “‘Tis not a happy tale.””You have me reading a book about a girl who tries to kill an entire town. Anything else...

I guess you can call me “old fashioned”. I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I may have to lick the tip of my fingers so that the pages...

I write for the thirteen year old me who hated reading and craved something different than the boring literature I was forced to read for school. I write to see something I want to read...

Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues that are otherwise...

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It’s all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

I don’t read books much.

Cultura e un cimitir de cărți și de alte obiecte dispărute pentru vecie.

With my sort of book there’s no resolution, because there’s no solution. The problems aren’t answered in the end because there is no answer. They’re problems that are handed on to the reader, not solved...

I am never alone, the pages of a book keeps my mind occupied.

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

which, by the way, is a great book,” offhandedly.You should read the book that you loved in high school. Read it again.You should read the book that you find on the library’s free cart whose...

We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

We all shuffle our own deck in life … The deck is our brain, the cards are our thoughts, the results we get will determine if we are giving ourselves a fair deal. Do you...

The Bible is the best motivational book.

I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

It’s Easy To Feel Like A Big Fish, When Your Pond is Just A Puddle!

Simply as a writer of books I’m thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the...

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer’s occupation. We write books because our children aren’t interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because...

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children’s books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.

Without a doubt,I must read,all the booksI’ve read about.See the artworkshung on hooks,that I have only,seen in books.

I want to get lost in other worlds and let my imagination travel beyond this life I know.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.”[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk...

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Things change after you die, though- I guess because dying is about the lonliest thing you can do.

I remember that story. You have read it four times.” Samson shrugged. “Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says, ‘That was a fine piece of music. I’ll never listen to that again.”...

He was giving her the most important thing he could, the only way he knew how. He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way...

He was like a book, where each chapter picks up pace until you can’t put it down. That’s when you know you’ve made a friend – when you want to read more of his story.

I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place...

I always say, ‘Books beat boredom,’ said Amanda wisely.

Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.

how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and...

I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

Life isn’t really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

RE: Kindle, iPad, et cetera: For a researcher, these new ways of accessing information are just extraordinary. I thing it introduces the possibility of a new standard of cognitive exactness and precision. ~ Rebecca Goldstein,...

But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save...

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers – thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book — it makes a very poor doorstop.