Book publishers should change the communication from best sellers to the best impacts.What matters is the impact not the sold copies.
Buy books. Unlike high calorie food, they don't give heart attacks.
When there is nothing to say about a book; we end up saying "Beautiful Story".
Some believe that every library looks like a splendid cemetery of human thoughts and ideas. Could librarians be called grave-diggers? However that may be, like a cemetery, a library will never stop be...
I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.
Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.
When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness.
The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book se...
Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer or the reader. Enjoy the journey wherever it may take you!
I think that's just a story.""But, Jace," she said. "All stories are true.
Maslow said sex is the primary need. Does that mean pornstars spend more money in books than anyone else?
I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring...
I wish I could think about nothing, but the books all the time. I have never had an alcoholic rampage because of thinking about books too much...
You are what you eat and read.
Now that his children had grown into their lives, their own children too, there was no one who needed more than the idea of him, and he thought maybe that was why he had this nagging feeling, this sen...
I've always believed in spreading the gospel of good books.
If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the stre...
Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can. Then, perhaps, you will come...
A favorite song or tune may stay on your mind for hours. A good book will stay on your mind until you find another.