#books

"I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV."

"I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them."

"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."

"The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."

"I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree."

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."

"What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."

"The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content."

"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."

"I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be."

"She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. “I’m going to miss you when I wake up,” she whispered, because she realized that she must have fallen asleep under the sun. Arin was too real for her imagination. He was a dream.“Don’t wake up,” he said."

"It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol."

"A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers."

"Амьдрал гэж нэг иймэрхүү авсаархан ном байлаа гэхэд, санаандгүй сөхөхөд тааралдах тохиолдлын ганц өгүүлбэрт л уг номыг унших учир шалтгаан бүрэн шингээстэй бий."

"Books are challenging and inspirational to me."

"Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort."

"Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge."

"And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?"