Top Books Quotes

I don't know anyone who can't learn something from The Little Prince.

We pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is astonishment and fear, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.

The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel; for the world hast fast to pass away-

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)

...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!'Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever w...

I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.

The land, that thou see now to have root, shall thou see wasted suddenly.

As with companions so with books. We may choose those which will make us better, more intelligent, more appreciative of the good and the beautiful in the world, or we may choose the trashy, the vulgar...

Attitude Is More Important Than Talent

It is hard to be so old, and harder still to be so blind. I miss the sun. And books. I miss the books most of all.

Yeah, I'm working on the 7 volume of "The Life Of One Kid", but the cover it's not written 7 volume...

Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity... We c...

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic wa...

I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.

Books are silent, but have the ability to scream.

What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.

I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyteller. If I am someone else, it's also because books move men more than journeys or tears.After many...