The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has…

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

— Anonymous

But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM”

— Wendy Wax

Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.

— Holly Smale

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

— Joseph Addison

I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.

— Carson Cistulli

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side…

— William Maxwell

“Books are just like Rorschach tests. The patterns we find in a book’s ink reveal far more about us than they do about them.…

— Sean Norris

Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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

— Jeff Bezos

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

— Seth Godin

Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson