I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps.
The greatest possessions I leave for my children are books.
The Holy Bible is the best of all books.
Child, all books are magic. Just think,' he said, 'about what books make people do. People go to war on the basis of what they read in books. They believe in "facts" just because they are written down...
Stories, A Portal to Anywhere but Here.
I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books.
... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....
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...
The world belongs to those who read.
I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us...
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.
Books are the most tolerant of friends.
I think a good book is a good book forever.I don't think they get less good because times change.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a re...
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that c...
Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of drug addiction. Purple Mike is a legal, natural high. Enjoy reading.
Just as food is fuel for the body, books are fuel for the mind.
If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.