When Suzie introduced Helen, she told the audience that one of the best things about books is that they are an interactive art form: that while the author may describe in some detail how a...

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Sometimes God’s way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails that champion gifted, foreign poets and decorate the library in beautiful, melancholy fashion! My God, this universe is nothing to snicker at!

Don’t forget, and don’t let your reader forget, that the small world in which you have held him for the last hour or two hasn’t ended. Be aware, and make him aware, that tomorrow all...

But here’s a great thing about stories: they can be retold.

This capacity to fold the completely weird into daily life, to make the aliens ourselves, is a quality I look for in a good, weird book.

Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages… and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else’s sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your...

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.