I love a book which never ends in my head, even though- a thousand times, it has been read!
Everything shall pass way, only books will remain.
Writers fly with imaginary wings.
Heaven is a warm cat and a good book.
Theory is like a book.It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie.
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man wh...
You're reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life.
Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny w...
While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?
I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if...
I never thought I'd fall madly in love with literature.
Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.
Paradoxically, however, a story ceases to be like life on its last page. Life goes on, but the story does not. Its characters have no vitality outside the first page and after the last is only good as...
Reading is like diving into an ocean of an alternate world, away from your real world, where in spite of going though the pain and pleasure of the characters, you remain a witness, unscathed.
It began to falter not when the book publishers who loved books gave way to those who preferred profits to reading. It happened when publishers and editors cut back on their drinking. If there is one...
Books?" Ridley looked disgusted. "Carry?
Authors: The only people you thank for leaving you emotionally devastated.
The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. It is unafraid of what other people think...It does not adapt either its pace or...
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.