The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.” ― George Orwell, 1984.

And he read Principles of Accounting all morning, but just to make it interesting, he put lots of dragons in it.

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

Love, I wrote the book on it. Unfortunately, nobody would publish it, so I felt compelled to burn my manuscript.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

Fear can't be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They're like love. They're almost identical emotions.

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.

Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness.

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point?

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.