Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

True fragrance speaks for itself. It does not require to be pointed out by the bearer.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It’s a schizophrenic business.

My books hold between their covers every story I’ve ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and,sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through everypainful...

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

Social networking is about building people up in your network NOT tearing them down

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice – read books.

I might not be physically strong.But I do believe that to survive, I need to be strong-willed.Which is more important in life?

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I’ve used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of...

Sometimes I come up here at night, even when I’m not fixing the clocks, just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never...

I only had two real tasks [while in Norway]: gathering dead trees to burn from the surrounding small forest and getting water from a hole in a frozen stream. The rest of the time I...

A good book is like a stream, with which we can flow slowly, playfully, it lets us savor the joy of weaving the magic of lovely thoughts, revealing the secrets of life with beautiful words.

that Beast-just-gave-Beauty-a-whole-frickin’-library look and now she’s going to spin around like she can read them all at once through osmosis.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here...

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

A man who looks like Frodo just spent $150 on erotica books and asked for my phone number. I considered giving him yours just to spite you.

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can–what we...

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Your mind will never be dull, if you remember there is never enough to learn for it to be to full.

I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both.

How do you paint a writer’s block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.

He had a little single-story house, three bedrooms, a full bathroom and a half bathroom, a combined kitchen-living room-dining room with windows that faced west, a small brick porch where there was a wooden bench...

We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can’t teach you.

I love to read. That doesn’t mean I don’t have a life. It doesn’t mean I’m a nerd.I only love the feeling that, even when you’re back in reality, you still feel like you’re in...

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

There is no ME without books; they’re everything I remember from childhood, from maturity … All that’s happened to me has been coloured, permanently, by my reading.

When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman’s secret life as a reader. As I worked it also became a story about the claims that books place on their...

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye “sees” the story as well as reads it, its layout, its paragraphs and structure, and “remembers” what it...

My spirit has been around far longer than my soul–I’ve lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I’ve been reading. I’m very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.

She curled sideways into the milky light of the bedside lamp and began to read.

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.

Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It’s the silence, sure, but it’s also the certainty of...

Sonnet 23As an unperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear is put besides his part,Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,Whose strength’s abundance weakens his own heart; So I, for fear...

I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul.

We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not.

Fiction in general holds little interest for me. Novels, in particular, arouse more suspicion than intrigue. It truly baffles me that any practitioner of make-believe should (especially in this day and age) feel the need...

he’ll expect to find us exactly where he left us, never mind how much his life has changed in the meantime.

I don’t know where everything is going, but I’m pretty confident that people like books – the objects. So I’m going to go on that -they’re not going to disappear.

Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain...

Lügen schmerzen, die Wahrheit jedoch bewegt uns.

There comes a time in every man’s life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle to let him find the books that most matter to him.