I asked her what a true story was because I thought that all stories were made up. She said a true story was called fact, and a made-up story was called ficton. Auntie May said...

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

Some stories consumed you, they made time stop, your worries float into the ether, and when it came to my reading habits I chose romance over any other genre. The appeal of the happy ever...

It is time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a sea of unremarkable men and women,...

When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That’s the only way you will do amazing things.

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

This book is full of empty love quotes. If you are looking for the meaning of life and love, then this book is for you. You won’t find the answers here, of course, but you’ll...

Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song,...

Sometimes the best books are hidden gems that you didn’t even know were out there!

So slip on your goggles and your reading trunks, for the sun is high. Let me leave you with one more thought. In what season of the year do we find ourselves – I’m speaking...

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That’s basically the highest compliment I can give.

I sat, a solitary man,In a crowded London shop,An open book and empty cupOn the marble table-top.While on the shop and street I gazedMy body of a sudden blazed;And twenty minutes more or lessIt seemed,...

This is the best time to be an author.

Yeah. Isn’t it great?

It’s not macho to read? Nonsense. Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-itness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home...

When there is nothing to say about a book; we end up saying “Beautiful Story”.

Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. ‘I’ll have to admit that he’s a very competent scholar.’Isn’t he just a librarian?’ Garion asked, ‘somebody who looks after books?’That’s where all the rest of...

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home–Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that...

You have to be careful what you write and not allow self righteousness to cloud your ability to be objective. This story is not about you, it’s about people and things that no one else...

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying,...

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.”[Proposition touching Amendment of Laws]

I’m not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.

Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.

One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.

Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. “I have kola,” he announced when he sat...

And because when all the words of promises and memories fade, these words that are written are the only one that remain. People may change and things may happen when we least expect it to...

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts.

Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading.

Dünyanın bir tarafında bir yerde, bir piyango çekiliyor, savaş yapılıyor ve hepimizin alınyazısı da böylece uzak­larda belirtiliyordu.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who’ve never made any money in business.

I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story....

Can you tell me what happened?”Her lips thinned as she shook her head. “‘Tis not a happy tale.””You have me reading a book about a girl who tries to kill an entire town. Anything else...

I guess you can call me “old fashioned”. I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I may have to lick the tip of my fingers so that the pages...

I write for the thirteen year old me who hated reading and craved something different than the boring literature I was forced to read for school. I write to see something I want to read...

Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues that are otherwise...

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It’s all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

I don’t read books much.

Cultura e un cimitir de cărți și de alte obiecte dispărute pentru vecie.

With my sort of book there’s no resolution, because there’s no solution. The problems aren’t answered in the end because there is no answer. They’re problems that are handed on to the reader, not solved...

I am never alone, the pages of a book keeps my mind occupied.

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

which, by the way, is a great book,” offhandedly.You should read the book that you loved in high school. Read it again.You should read the book that you find on the library’s free cart whose...

We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind.