The greatest tragedy to ever happen to a nation is not the incidences of war or terrorism. It’s when more bookshops close down and more drinking bars are opened to replace them!

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

I personaggi, le frasi e le parole trovate nei libri sono come ponti che ti permettono di spostarti da dove sei verso dove vuoi andare, e quasi sempre è un ponte che unisce il tuo...

The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness – and love. Books loved anyone who...

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life...

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

Last night I read two books back to back. Tonight I’ll probably read both of those books’ front covers.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Well written novels are penned by authors who have a unique and personal ardor for their story. They fabricate the phrases of their mind into a voice and thus a character is born.

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.

For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers.

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.

That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right...

I don’t think I’m an unkind person, I don’t think my books are unkind, and I don’t think my readers are unkind.

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky.

The more man studies, the less he loves reading

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they...

Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with...