Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

I like to discover something new each day, to interpret the world in a way others might not, like a child might approach new experiences.

In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

It’s a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That’s the most you can ever do.

Some people buy books not to read but to dream, the moment 2-3 sentences read and lost in imagination. Take a paper and begin writing.....