Book Quotes

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

My heart woke me crying last night how can I help I begged my heart said-write the book.

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

I was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can’t really move from it: it’s on buses, in stores, it’s everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.

There are many self-help books by Ph.D.s, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A.-I’ve Been Through It All. This degree comes not on parchment but gauze, and it entitles me to tell you that there is a way to get through any misfortune.

Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.