Reading Quotes - Page 12

My books are a word feast.

Even in the hottest fire there's a bit of water. my The Opposite Of Magic.

One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.

My characters don't always know more than the reader does, because my readers get the best seat in Paper House.

The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the wind carried them high up into heaven.

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.

Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

I stress the expansion and elaboration of language. In simplifying it, reducing it, we reduce the power of our expression and our power to communicate. Standardization, the use of worn-out formulas, impedes communication because it does not match the subtlety of our minds or emotions, the multimedia of our unconscious life.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

Perhaps reading and writing books is one of the last defences human dignity has left, because in the end they remind us of what God once reminded us before He too evaporated in this age of relentless humiliations - that we are more than ourselves; that we have souls.

I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real. Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable. Even fiction portrays truth: good fiction is truth.

He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.

My only wish is to be buried with my books.