When I am dead, I hope it may be said, ‘His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.

Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. […]I did not know what to say to this.Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean, concluded Fowler. Maybe it’s...

I’m often asked how I write books, but I don’t think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was ‘I tend to...

Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.

I’m sorry,’ she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, ‘I’m sorry Courtney.I’m sorry Marcus. I’m sorry Rachel.I’m sorry Jon. I’m sorry I’m alive and you’re dead. I’m sorry...

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend.

She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her...

The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place.

If I’m going to write a book every American will want to read, it’s got to have lots of pictures. Those pictures must also move, and all the words in the book must be spoken...

The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

You turn the book over in your hands, you scan the sentences on the back of the jacket, generic phrases that don’t say a great deal. So much the better, there is no message that...

‘Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet if the worlds and characters were of my own making.’

The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil… my next The Opposite Of Magic.

I enjoy reading books by way of subtitles from the movies they got made into.

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow’s book...

Merry Christmas!’ someone shouted. He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand. ‘Merry Christmas!”Merry Christmas!”C-cookies for ever’body!’ Sammy hollered. And looking both ways, they all fled across to the light, and the warmth,...

Never Let anyone tell you that you can’t; show them that you can.

I Respect A Man Who Reads More Books Than I Do In A Day.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you’re that age, it will cause you pain when you’re older.

The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will...

Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit.” Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications

Reading’s not a luxury, art’s not a luxury. It’s about your soul, and it’s about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury

I write books, bitch!

Tearing your clothes, burning your books and torturing yourself only prove that you are nothing but a wild creature.

Comme tout le monde, je n’ai à mon service que trois moyens d’évaluer l’existence humaine: l’étude de soi, la plus difficile et la plus dangereuse, mais aussi la plus féconde des méthodes; l’observation des hommes,...

☺☺ When a man gets to 99, he starts to think, he may only have another 10 years of sexy lovemaking left… Still Smiling At 99. ☺☺

by reading book after book (the only reliable otherworlds I’ve discovered so far).

As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are...

The Best Deal Is The One Where Everyone Walks Away Happy!

Yes, I read. And yes, I do it a lot. And yes, I did it before you because life can suck and living in a fantasy world is a lot more fun than living in...

Miss Lasqueti consumed mostly crime thrillers, which constantly seemed to disappoint her. I suspect that for her the world was more accidental than any book’s plot. Twice I saw her so irritated by a mystery...

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything….The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There...

I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms,...

Books have a complete disregard for your feelings. They don’t care if you are crying. They are going to continue making you cry.

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don’t want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it...

The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She’s both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I’m not.

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable...

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

New Adult is a label that is condescending to readers and authors alike. It implies that the books act as training wheels between Young Adult and Adult. For the New Adult books that are particularly...

There is a somewhat time-worn joke about people taking up library work because they like to read : the joke consisting of the fact that librarians have so little time to read. But, I tell...

I have a handful of prayers that I pray all the time… One is that God will put my books into the right hands at the right times. I’ve prayed this prayer thousands of times,...

One final time I told myself I wasn’t abducting my little brother.