Books are like ice cream; there is a flavor for everyone!

Le paradis des écrivains, c’est l’endroit où vous décidez de réécrire la vie comme vous auriez voulu la vivre. Car la force des écrivains, Marcus, c’est qu’ils décident de la fin du livre.

Be Original. Follow your dreams. The worst possible thing for you to do in life is give up what makes you happy.

They do not learn, fixed in their ways as they are. You are naïve tothink otherwise. It’s an illness, Assassin, for which there is but one cure.’‘You’re wrong. And that’s why you must be put...

And you will not hurt him anymore. Not one of you. Because I am his protector. His rear guard. I am his” -Tara Reese

Don’t you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?” he said.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.

Now that his children had grown into their lives, their own children too, there was no one who needed more than the idea of him, and he thought maybe that was why he had this...

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.

Brendan stopped reading. The words had melted into a liquid blur…In his possession was a box full of information that would likely fill in the gaps and help him to wrap his brain around the...

If any accolades come in the writing of this story, all praise will be His, all Glory will rightly go to Him. If He will allow me to share some part in this, I am...

It is better to read one intellectually challenging book every 12 months … than to read 12 entertaining books every month.

Eski İstanbul’da mimarînin saltanatına rekabet eden başka güzellik varsa, o da ağaçlardı. Fakat buna rekabet denebilir mi? Doğrusu istenirse, ağaç, mimarîmizin ve bütün hayatımızın en lutufk r yardımcısıdır. Beyaz mermerle, yontulmuş taşla uyuştuğu kadar, harap...

In a few minutes I heard the books’ voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I’d heard it many times before. I’ve always had a finely tuned ear for a library’s accumulations of echo and desire....

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc’s obsessive love of books had been–she realized now–a huge part of his appeal….

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll git me a book I ain’t read. (ca. 1825; in Sandburg, Prairie Years, I, p. 71)

Besides, what was more perfect an object than a book? The different rags of paper, smooth or rough under your fingers. The edge of the page pressed into your thumbprint as you turned a new...

Good books are about everything.

As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of this pretended thing, revealed religion. They are the natural dictates of conscience, and...

We can imagine the books we’d like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well...

A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.

I wanted to live among books.

Sometimes books feel like the only thing that keep her sane. Actually, she knows that they’re the only reason she’s still even vaguely okay right now. That’s what she clings to: reading great books and...

I was reading.You’re always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt. Then maybe they shouldn’t talk to me.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.

No, no, it’s not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, in old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and...

Books make me happy, boys make me sad.

I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can’t imagine it being true at all.

The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.

Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps no coincidence that nature in the Cinderella stories facilitates transformation, for nature itself...

Will: I’ve never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You’d think they were diamonds.Tessa: Well, they are, aren’t they? Isn’t there anything you love like that?

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Literature cannot be imposed; it must be discovered.

Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great...

Be the greatest of who you were meant to be. Life goes on ferociously-with or without you. It is your choice. Truly and magnificently your choice.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend

Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.

Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.

…I set the house on fire. It’s dark outside. The fire tears down the darkness. I turn my back to the place and leave, not knowing where. And suddenly I understand…All dreams are dead now”.

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.

Being ill when you are a child or growing up is such an enchanted interlude! The outside world, the world of free time in the yard or the garden or on the street, is only...

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.