I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on in the world between the covers of books, such sandstorms and ice blasts of words, such staggering peace, such enormous laughter, such and so many blinding bright lights, splashing all over the pages – Welsh poet Dylan Thomas Read more

“I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, ‘If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we’ll talk.’ All the computer… Read more

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears the Human Soul – – Emily Dickinson, one of my favorite poets Read more

“By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer’s greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading… Read more

Sections in the bookstore – Books You Haven’t Read – Books You Needn’t Read – Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading – Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written – Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your… Read more

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is… Read more

“The only way to do all the things you’d like to do is to read.” – Prolific American authorTom Clancy Read more

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.” – English author E. Nesbit They really aren’t the same, when you think about it. Sometimes I’m absorbed in the book; sometimes, the book is simply… Read more

  “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” – Scout Finch, character in the classic To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Read more

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction. – P.D. James Read more