«About books»

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 classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.

W. E. B. Du Bois

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Garrison Keillor

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Ali Smith

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.

Jeff Bezos

Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

Deb Caletti

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Ernest Hemingway

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Stephen King

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

Melody Carlson

An art book is a museum without walls.

Andre Malraux

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 should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

Confucius

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

P. L. Travers

There’s a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.

Mads Mikkelsen