That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

As a fan of Agatha Christie, I think a brilliant mystery novel would be trying to identify the meat contents in a McDonald’s hamburger.

If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.

…secondhand bookstores have pilgrims. The words out of print are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made of paper and ink.

Books are boring," James said as he wrote."They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Ich glaube, dass das Buch für uns Europäer die Erde ist, das Wasser, das Vaterland und auch unser Heim, das Haus, in dem wir wohnen.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

People are like books. You can either read them, or you can burn them. But before I try to read you, I’ve got to ask, Are you a heretic?

Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.

I love digging myself into books because the moment I'm drifted from reality, I'm in a different world and I'm a different person.

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.