Air Quote by Anonymous

“Books, including those written by famous authors, may sit unread on forgotten shelves, attracting dust rather than readers’ attention.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a…

— Terry Pratchett

Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.

— Louise Rosenblatt

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

— Tim O'Reilly

Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of…

— John Clellon Holmes

An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over…

— George A. Moore

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her…

— Jeanette Winterson

The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.

— Rosemary Wells

Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

— Eugene Field

“There are good books, indifferent books, and bad books. Amongst the good books some are honest, inspiring, moving, prophetic and improving. But in my…

— Vernon Sproxton

“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

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

— V. S. Naipaul