When one opens a book, one should also open one’s mind.

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don’t count-I mean something with print in it.

I hope I don’t write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself “When did they live?” I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live!...

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

A good book will surely become an event in your life.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

My characters don’t always know more than the reader does, because my readers get the best seat in Paper House.

There’s a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we’re even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won’t supply them.

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I’m still looking...

Well, right now I’m not dead. But when I am, it’s like…I don’t know, I guess it’s like being inside a book that nobody’s reading. […] An old one. It’s up on a library shelf,...

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

…there are pleasures to be had from books beyond being lightly entertained. There is the pleasure of being challenged; the pleasure of feeling one’s range and capacities expanding; the pleasure of entering into an unfamiliar...

Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To lose oneself in a book was to be slightly wacky, a little greedy and ultimately slothful....

We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

In the lie of truth lies the truth.

Nobody ever gave away a trophy for reading books

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

never replace the real thing”. Then I was given a Kindle as a present. That shut me up. Stock complaints about the inherent pleasure of ye olde format are bandied about whenever some new upstart...

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.

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more...

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.