To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you....

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

I think serious readers of books are 5% of the population. If there are good TV shows or a World Cup or anything, that 5% will keep on reading books very seriously, enthusiastically. And if...

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.

Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a city of unstable skyscrapers, and he was the window-washer tasked with the impossible...

Leiam o que os apaixone, apenas isso os ajudará a suportar a existência.

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

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...

I can’t fall asleep at night when reading a good book.

I just need to sit, think, write and read.

You’re either reading a book or you’re not.

I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

If your friend wishes to read your ‘Plutarch’s Lives,’ ‘Shakespeare,’ or ‘The Federalist Papers,’ tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat – but your...

I realized that I read books not because of the words used but because of the familiar feelings these words help me express.

Another thing I need to do, when I’m near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it…Somehow the book doesn’t leave you when you’re asleep right next to it.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Environ une demi-seconde après avoir terminé votre livre, après en avoir lu le dernier mot, le lecteur doit se sentir envahi d’un sentiment puissant; pendant un instant, il ne doit plus penser qu’à tout ce...

You know your book is good when you have to put it down just so you can breathe.

The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial sections, things, that is, which the spirit can assimilate to itself. After which...

Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance better than most, since a fair amount of what they call work consists...

Once I had opened a book and read its pages, those characters could never be taken away from me. Even if the books were burned, they would still live on in my mind.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine… before she realizes she’s reading.

Someone has said of books that they are our ‘amplest heritages’ of thought, and so they are. That doesn’t necessarily mean that they must be learned or profound. They are food for the mind and...

Antonia José Bolivar préférait ne plus penser, laissant béantes les profondeurs de sa mémoire pour les remplir de bonheur et de tourments d’amour plus éternels que le temps.

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

My only wish is to be buried with my books.

Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.

This is what Laura loved about literature. You could see things in it that perhaps weren’t there, but might be. And even that didn’t matter if, in the end, readers needed something to be there....

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.

When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and...

Closed books are like closed eyes—you must open them to see anything.

A good reading strengthens the soul.

Honestly, I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl’s life. Like, no. The girl needs to change her own life.

Everything in contemporary society discourages interiority. More and more of our exchanges take place via circuits, and in their very nature those interactions are such as to keep us hovering in the virtual now, a...

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net,...

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

..through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.

Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.

Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is explicit or before it sees its object, manifests itself as boredom or some...

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

The coverlet warmed her legs. The firelight wobbled over the pages. Maelyn sank into the world the words wrapped around her, hushing everything that hurt, and seeping tranquility right down to her toes. She was...

The visitor enters and says, “What a lot of books! Have you read them all?” …The best answer is the one always used by Roberto Leydi: “And more, dear sir, many more,” which freezes the...

But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save...

Each ending is the messenger for a new beginning

A new book is still on trial and the amateur is not in a position to judge it. It has to be tested against the great body of Christian thought down the ages and all...

There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my opinion. There are also books for when you’re sad. And there are books...