If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
If a book is worth reading at all it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyme...
I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.
People open bookstores because they want their souls back.(from "Two Women" published in Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love from Tin House)
A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that's all forehead doesn't amo...
Our senses and emotions are the great source of inspiration for creating compelling and interesting art pieces (books included). Each art piece, be it a book, a song, a painting, a photograph or a pro...
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Books have a complete disregard for your feelings. They don't care if you are crying. They are going to continue making you cry.
There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable.
Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about life.
If you are looking for a friend that will never change, go to the shelves, you'll find it there. It will never change and will stay the same today and forever.
Instead, I read books in the library, huddling on a bean bag in a corner and getting lost in somebody else's victories and troubles. I never had much time for fiction before. I preferred real life. Ma...
...that the decline in reading among children was largely the fault of their parents. Parents these days don't read books, themselves, but they feel they should make their children read. Since they ar...
The treasures in my house are books.
I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates. The more knowledge, the better seems like the a solid rule of...
They met in the library searching for old Sidney Sheldon books. Her silence and calmness drew her to him. His brooding nature drew him to her. Conversations flowed like the waters of a water-fall! And...
One great book can change the perspective and understanding of a whole nation
Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.