There wasn’t a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words…

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

You’re either reading a book or you’re not.

Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals.

Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.

Attitude Is More Important Than Talent!

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn’t have any excuse to be stupid.

Around three a.m. he feels a presence in the room. He sees, for the pulse of a moment, a figure at the foot of his bed, against the wall or painted onto it perhaps, not...

Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.

Knihy sú najlepšími druhmi človeka, lebo hovoria len vtedy, keď chceme a keď si želáme, tak mlčia. Dávajú všetko a nechcú nič.

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

Life is’nt about getting everything you want the instant you want it.Some thing are worth waiting for.

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of...

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh.”[Afterword]

We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand...

My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you’re never around assholes. That’s the two things to really fight for in life.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

I could feel the blood rushing to my cheeks. Montgomery had gotten the flowers. Sometime yesterday he’d picked wild flowers like he used to when we’d visit cousins in the country.

Books appear to be frail and disposable, but they are sacred. You can burn the paper, but the stories live on. In the same way, a poor man or woman is not a burden on...

As night falls silently all around,She carefully turns the last page.

I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.

Güçlük var. Fakat imkansız değil. Biz şimdi bir aksülamel devrinde yaşıyoruz. Kendimizi sevmiyoruz. Kafamız bir yığın mukayeselerle dolu; Dede’yi, Wagner olmadığı için, Yunus’u, Verlaine, Baki’yi, Goethe ve Gide yapamadığımız için beğenmiyoruz. Uçsuz bucaksız Asya’nın o...

In truth, she disliked books. She felt a peculiar disquiet when opening the pages. She had felt it since childhood. She did not know why. Something in the act itself, the immersion, the seclusion, was...

Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hencethe need for continual conflict and resolution. We can’t have any boring books.

I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.

Write the ending first and then you’ll know before the opening sentence that it’s going to be a good book.

I like shows or films or books that have messages but don’t beat people over the head with them.

Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave a world with both.

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I’m in a bus for 22 hours. It’s not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke...

His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching first at one spar and then at another.

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn’t read all the good books in this lifetime.

The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

No man can stay for forever young, Unless he is a writer.

Even prisoners can escape if they have books.

I grew up on comic books. ‘X-Men’ was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don’t know what you’re doing.

You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.

I’m considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms.

Are you missing the library again?” Seth asked, startling her as he walked into the room.Kendra turned to face her brother. “You caught me,” she congratulated him. “I’m reading.””I bet the librarians back home are...

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself.