All Quotes

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

A book is a book is a book.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

A book is a gift you can open again and again.
‐‐ Garrison Keillor

A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.
‐‐ John Darnielle

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

A book is either autobiography or a novel.
‐‐ Imre Kertesz

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.
‐‐ Melody Carlson

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
‐‐ Norman Cousins

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
‐‐ Carl Sandburg

A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a collection of text, organized in one of a variety of ways. You could say that words printed on paper and bound between cloth covers will someday be obsolete. But if and when that day comes, there will still be a thing called books.
‐‐ James Gleick

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.
‐‐ Lisa See

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.
‐‐ Chaim Potok

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
‐‐ Angela Carter

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.
‐‐ Richard Powers

A book is the only immortality.
‐‐ Rufus Choate

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
‐‐ Paul Scofield

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
‐‐ Ernest Dimnet

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
‐‐ Rupert Brooke

A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
‐‐ Henry Brooke

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
‐‐ Pauline Kael

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
‐‐ Franz Kafka

A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know.
‐‐ Alan Furst

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
‐‐ Edward Fitzgerald

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.
‐‐ Joan Blades

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
‐‐ Charles Lamb

A book's flaws make it less predictable.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
‐‐ Franz Kafka

A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
‐‐ Chris Ware

A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.
‐‐ Regina Brett

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
‐‐ Alexander Payne

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
‐‐ Thomas Love Peacock

A book that is shut is but a block.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller

A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.
‐‐ Ian Frazier

A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.
‐‐ Dav Pilkey

A book worth reading is worth buying.
‐‐ John Ruskin

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
‐‐ Jerry Seinfeld

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.
‐‐ Jon Katz

A border collie saved me once when I was pinned under a horse in Colorado. And once when I went through the ice, one of my sled dogs saw me go under, and she got the rest of the team, and they pulled me out of 12 feet of water. I think that dogs offer the only form of unconditional love that's available to humans.
‐‐ Gary Paulsen

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
‐‐ Elsa Maxwell

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
‐‐ James Broughton

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
‐‐ Mikhail Bakunin

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.
‐‐ Thomas Gold Appleton

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
‐‐ Clifton Fadiman

A bowler can make or break a chap.
‐‐ John Newton