The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Speaking personally you can have my gun but you ll take my book when you pry my cold dead fingers off of the binding

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing

When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.

Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it

Father is a school manqué ... He always wanted to write books. But he became rich instead, so is not allowed.

Do not bite more than you can chew; Do not chew more than you can swallow and do not swallow more than you can digest

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

When a bookmark tumbles out of an old book pristine and unwrinkled, it is like a gasp of breath from another century.

Holding a book is like holding a dream. the only difference is, you can touch it, store it and relish it years later.

I do, I'm afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.