Book Quote by Anonymous

“Are you the man who reads phone books?”

— Thomas Pynchon

“A book is more durable than a man.”

— Michael Grumley

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

— Anatole Broyard

“You're ruining that book!" He pointed to the page I'd torn out. "That's a perfectly good book!" Holding his gaze, I reached down and…

— Kate Avery Ellison

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

— Anonymous

If there is an amateur reader still left in the world—or anybody who just reads and runs—I ask him or her, with untellable affection…

— Anonymous

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but…

— David Levithan

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

— George Sand

“The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content.”

— Jarod Kintz

“When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new…

— Anonymous

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

— Alphonse de Lamartine