Top Books Quotes

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining wh...

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.

We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read because we know we're alone. Reading offers a kind of com...

Librarians are your very best friend. And don't ever think otherwise.

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secre...

A favorite song or tune may stay on your mind for hours. A good book will stay on your mind until you find another.

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...

I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books.

Reading is all about losing and finding yourself.

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...

The greatest possessions I leave for my children are books.

When you read,' the man whispered, 'you discover who you really are. You find traces of yourself, little pieces you didn't know were there.

Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.

There is no other enjoyment like reading

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!

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.