I’m usually a bit awkward in houses that I haven’t been to before, so it’s a way to not look weird. If I find something I’ve read before it automatically makes me more comfortable.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

I’d like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate…. And I’d like to have the most enormous library, and I’d like to think that I...

A book a week I heave a sigh;That Slogan’s peremptory cryI will not hear, I will not heed.How can They say that I should needThe book They bid me weekly buy?But Slogans change, as days...

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings about books–I’m talking about my friends and myself–went beyond love. It was as...

If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don’t care who reads them.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines — it’s hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta.

You don’t know anything, but I know even less.

At least books could never let you down.

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page...

You discover or re-discover yourself only through travel, and unplanned travel is the most exhilarating experience. I truly believe that not all those who wander are lost. But for the ones who are lost, wandering...

But if you like, you can come share a tasty meal of bread, raisins, and fresh Burgos cheese. With that, and The Count of Monte Cristo, anyone can live to a hundred.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life...

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.

There is much to discover that’s not on the back cover!

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it’s meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author’s brains out.

You know, I don’t only play for the record books.

How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets – all from words printed on a page…. How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages...

His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless; he was vain of the wider knowledge he had acquired from...

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

There are two things that grant a bit of immortality: books and children

Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind, the world of books is the greatest. Every child, scrawling his first letters...

Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in...

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are...

In the first play, the crisis is Thomas More. In the second it’s Anne Boleyn. In the third book, and the third play, it’s crisis every day, an overlapping series of only just negotiable horrors....

Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination…

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

In the dream, Tana’s mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.-Tana-page 21-chapter 4

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not some books continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without...

Most people have a list of 100 books to read before they die, or 100 places to visit. Not me. I have a list of 100 birthdays to see. No need to write them down,...

Literature is news that stays news.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

I’m a miner, and I’m always dirty, because I’m constantly digging. Am I shoveling for gold? Hardly. I’m unearthing this hearty land searching for the next great American novel. If I dig deep enough, I’m...

More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I’d like to take a moment and...

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

I’ll bet opening a store called Boobs and Books would increase literacy. I prefer a hands-on approach to learning.

Denn ich ohne Bücher bin nicht ich.

We human beings build houses because we’re alive but we write books because we’re mortal. We live in groups because we’re sociable but we read because we know we’re alone. Reading offers a kind of...

It was true; books had saved me in my home remodeling projects, but they fell short in teaching me how to trust my instincts, and how to stop thinking with my educated brain and more...

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation… A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed...