Books Quote by Benjamin Franklin

The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding…

— Benjamin Franklin

“THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Printer like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stripped of its lettering and gilding…

— Benjamin Franklin

“PREFACE TO THE 1832 EDITION At the head of the earlier editions of this work, published at first without the name of the author,…

— Victor Hugo

“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long…

— H.G. Wells

Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page...”

— Raymond Chandler

“He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in…

— Anatole France

“A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.”

— J.R. Ward

“It doesn't matter how a novel was printed. What matters are the words in between the pages.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“I count it a mistake of our mistaken democracy, that every man who can read print is allowed to believe that he can read…

— D.H. Lawrence

“The letter Q for question, seared into human flesh. As I started to sleepwrite my questions, the margin seemed to expand. The paper throbbed…

— Diane Setterfield

“On a spring day in 1988…a Massachusetts man who collected books about local history was rummaging through a bin in a New Hampshire antiques…

— Allison Hoover Bartlett