“ It needs to be repeated that books are much more than merely vehicles for text. Awareness of the way a book is created, the materials of which it is made, flipping through the volume to see how it is… Roderick Cave & Sara Ayad
“ Trithemius' concern for conservation was rare, indeed, and is a lesson to modern library managers who discard printed volumes, believing that e-books are the only way of the future. Roderick Cave
“ Standing in front of the white picket fence, I stared at the multitude of champagne roses weaving their hunter green vines gracefully through and around the fence. Soft hints of pink hues whispered fr… Leah Lozano
“ Books were cities I'd never visited, filled with pillars of great thoughts and streets of phrases, mazes of abstruse sentence structures and alleys of complicated syllables. They were stores that disp… Jung-Myung Lee
“ He was letting you break your icons one by one. he was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being. Harper Lee
“ Something is wrong with me, it's something about me. it has to be me because all those people cannot have changed. Harper Lee
“ You'll find magic everywhere, even in dark, dusty corners, if you stop searching with your limited human eyes and instead feel with your naked soul. Melody Lee
“ She marched to the door and said, "if I ever marry, Patrick O'Sullivan, I shall make sure that my mate for life is a decent woman, or even, maybe, a book. Joanna Trollope
“ You don't have books?!' Rose almost sat up and banged her head on the roof rafters. That made the rats jump. 'How can you live without reading?''Pretty well so far.' I laughed. 'Stories are just made-… Lucy Adlington
“ In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who had been favorites at different times. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“ Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in their ability to conjure these specters. Pierre Bayard
“ Fictional characters exert a great deal of influence over our choices in love by representing inaccessible ideals to which we try to make others conform, usually without success. But more subtly, too,… Pierre Bayard
“ Once I am at leisure, said Salvatore, I take refuge in prose as one might in a boat. All day long I am surrounded by the clamour on the editorial floor, but in the evening I cross over to an island, a… W.G. Sebald
“ You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a book, you can open it again and again. Israelmore Ayivor
“ You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery. Israelmore Ayivor
“ You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well. Israelmore Ayivor
“ Her skin smells of vintage books and pale moonlight, exotic things, forbidden loves and rainy nights. Melody Lee
“ Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. Henry David Thoreau
