You can only learn to read by reading.
She cannot: but must do it by distance of time.
The land, that thou see now to have root, shall thou see wasted suddenly.
I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.
How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.
A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.
My goal is to read as much as possible books, my dream is to meet the snow person, the storm person and to make something together. I will be the rain, Snowy will be the snow, Stormy will be the storm...
I love you silly 'holy' book. Here's hoping everybody un-reads it.
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...
Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is a writer who used pen and ink. He looked up from the page...
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...
What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be para...
There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
A library is more precious than a bank.
We pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is astonishment and fear, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who...
Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.
I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms.
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...