As far as I'm concerned, the book's never closed with…

Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I closed the book and closed my heart along with it.”

— Staci Hart

“Melrose was so concerned that the [book]shop might close for lack of business, that he had suggested he would like to invest in it…

— Martha Grimes

Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.

— Stefan Heym

“In the dresser mirror, my face looks the same, but I feel something happening around me, some change as palpable as weather. Stuck in…

— Jo Ann Beard

“And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages and mischievously…

— Azar Nafisi

“I pretended to be an open book, but I was closed off and conceited.”

— Coco J. Ginger

The book is closed, the year is done, the pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, along with dreams, are…

— Arch Ward

While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Bastian looked at the book. 'I wonder,' he said to himself, 'what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of…

— Michael Ende

I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something…

— Michael Ende

Goodbyes hurt when the story is not finished and the book has been closed.

— Anonymous

You can't play a backbeat in Black Sabbath. You can if you want to; it's going to ruin the song.

— Bill Ward

Black Sabbath has always been noncompliant.

— Bill Ward

It's hard to be a hungry young man when you're not hungry anymore. We were very hungry young men when we wrote 'Black Sabbath'…

— Bill Ward