All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type.

tout aboutit en un livre,” everything ends up in a book. The Greeks speak of generations that will sing; Mallarmé speaks of an object, of a thing among things, a book. But the idea is...

I was always able to lose myself in reading. Books were a necessary escape I always gladly jumped into headfirst.

For the last several days I’ve had the sudden and general urge to buy a new book. I’ve stopped off at a few bookstores around the city, and while I’ve looked at hundreds and hundreds...

There is an exuberance in good fantasy quite unlike the most exalted moments of realistic fiction. Both forms have similar goals; but realism walks where fantasy dances.

One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind,...

The irritating question they ask us — us being writers — is: “Where do you get your ideas?”And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra!

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it’s an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I’ll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for...

I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.

I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that – you...

Temeraire said, ‘It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

Books allowed my imagination to take flight and it hasn’t landed yet

Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people’s books, one’s own books – it does not matter whose or where. Simply...

In modeling: He with better looks is more in demand than he who has read better books.

Wer sieben gute Bücher hat, braucht keine Menschen mehr.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to...

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

I guess there’s a sort of cycle with writing books. There’s all the researching and then the imagining and writing – which is the real job – and then there’s always a period when the...

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of...

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us—to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it...

You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it’s like you’re in two places at the same time: you’re sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl,...

I can lend you my money not my books.

His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly...

Read positive books; see positive things and surround yourself with positive thinkers; life will be full with positivity.

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books – this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one’s life becomes very small.

Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it’s like tearing off the bandages.

When I have the Bible memorised, then I’ll be able to go and read a couple other books.

Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Market it with the persistence of a drug peddler.

Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author’s musings lead.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.

Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

The sound of her phone shocked her out of the dark world that was currently playing in front of her eyes from the book in her lap. She wondered sometimes, why she bothered with books....

I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to have been for this very moment when nothing else mattered.

There is a huge fan base; they’re very knowledgeable and very loyal. I was astonished – before I started working on the series, I didn’t know anything about ‘Game of Thrones.’ I hadn’t heard of...

You only benefit from books if you can give something back to them. What I mean is, if you approach them in the spirit of a duel, so you can both wound and be wounded,...

I stress the expansion and elaboration of language. In simplifying it, reducing it, we reduce the power of our expression and our power to communicate. Standardization, the use of worn-out formulas, impedes communication because it...

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Geeks are not the world’s rowdiest people. We’re quiet and introspective, and usually more comfortable communing with our keyboards or a good book than each other. Our idea of how to paint theEmerald City red...

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me–I have no others.

oh god i live in sea of shallow people ..i hope someday find who really deeper than every book i read it..

I’ve written many nonfiction books, but that’s a special gift.

Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.