Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.

[http://www.spiritsite.com/writing/thihan/ SpiritSight.com - Excerpts from selected Thich Nhat Hanh books]

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

[https://books.google.com/books?&as_auth=%22Nazrul+Islam+%28Kazi%29%22 Nazrul Islam, at Google Books]

I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well. [p. 124]

Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.

I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.