Top Books Quotes

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

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.I can wa...

Never go down to the darkest room. Stay far away from the rotting coffin. If you want to live through the night, let the devil sleep.

We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another...

Ti do un consiglio: quando sei giovane e ti capita di leggere qualcosa che non ti piace affatto, mettilo da parte e rileggilo tra tre anni dopo. Se ancora non ti piace, rileggilo dopo altri tre anni....

Even in the hottest fire there's a bit of water. my The Opposite Of Magic.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?

A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula...

Let's fall in love and screw up our lives even more?

Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good.

Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. People used to say they like to read books about romance, true crime, comedy, horror or science fiction. But these days...

In books I meet the dead as if they were alive,in books I see what is yet to come...All things decay and pass with time...all fame would fall victim to oblivionif God had not given mortal men the book...

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

My only wish is to be buried with my books.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

Keynes was a voracious reader. He had what he called ‘one of the best of all gifts – the eye which can pick up the print effortlessly’. If one was to be a good reader, that is to read as easily as one...

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they were all tricks. They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything. O...