I’m a big ‘Star Wars’ fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read ‘Star Wars’ fiction that went between the newest trilogy and the original trilogy and it...

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. “No,” she said softly, “Oh no. No.” “Leave me,” said Gavriel. …..”Shut up or I might,” she...

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Really, I don’t like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn’t writing books.

Do you ever hide books you’ve read over and over again because you’re so sick of them?”Oh, definitely. When they ask for them, I say the book fairy came to get it. One time they...

I don’t like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.

Sometimes I’ll read a book and feel it was written just for me. Then I’ll flip the book over to look at the cover to see who wrote it, only to discover that it feels...

Look at your daughter,’ she whispered. ‘As brave as…as..” She wanted to compare Meggie to a hero in some story but all the heroes she could think of were men, and anyway none of them...

Of all the comforting objects in this world, few things are as reassuring and accepting as books.

Every work cancels the dark. Every work is a hymn from the other side of memory to a memory that is spellbound. Beauty is death’s gift to vulgar life so that it can live in...

I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were reality. I hadn’t made up my own mind about my own...

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That’s my...

A pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

In some Old Testament books, it’s very evident that an editor has been at work. That’s quite all right. It’s part of the process.

Happiness is not always reading the same page in the same book. Sometimes it is just wanting to hold the others book for them to read.

Your friends are a reflection of you.

I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, … I was there on the page

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.”( A Boy in France: Saturday Evening Post CCXVII, March 31, 1945)

Liest man, was alle anderen auch lesen, kann man auch nur das denken, was alle anderen denken.

She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read...

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Well yeah, but now I’m highly motivated to get you out.” This is what I love about novels, both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you...

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

We’re all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things.

Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we...

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Self learner; reading.

I love digging myself into books because the moment I’m drifted from reality, I’m in a different world and I’m a different person.

I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

Anna read and understood, but it was unpleasant to read, that is to say, to follow the reflection of other people’s lives. She was too eager to live herself.

I wasn’t a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn’t written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old...

Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don’t care what anyone else thinks.

The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It’s going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet nobody is placing this in any type of column in accounting for federal debt.

transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

Learning new things exercises the brain in such a titillating way.

… a writer concocts a different story for every reader.

There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books.

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso bajo la especie de una biblioteca.

Young minds – young brains – need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I...

I don’t want to write about real things, I would rather write about an uncontrollable parasitic twin.

What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to...

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

I was going to the library, too. I’d get my parents to drop me off at the library on their way to work in the morning during school vacations. Sometimes my dad would embarrass me...

If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

It takes a great reader to make a great book.