#Book

"Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth."

"Don't say negative things about your spouse and children."

"In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar."

"I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love."

"I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books."

"Experience is the best teacher."

"[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them."

"The presence of God is so important in the life of believers. There is abundance of all you need to make your life comfortable in His presence."

"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."

"Don't die without fulfilling your purpose."

"Being a Dream Girl is never going to be about what you look like or how much you weigh. After all, our physical appearances are just reflections of our inner worlds. What makes you a Dream Girl is your emotional sensitivity, your self-awareness, and your ability to communicate who you are effectively and compassionately in the world."

"The Book of Life, I’m still writing it—both literally and literarily. So far I’ve written the Table of Contents. Right now it’s more of a coffee table."

"The sole/soul purpose of a book is to be read."

"Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . ."

"I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much."

"An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books."

"Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books."

"God rewards every act of obedience to His Will."

"I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.'"

"You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young."