Body Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“The body of B. Franklin, Printer; Like the cover of an old book (it's contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and 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

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

“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

“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

The printed page was like wine to me.

— Robert E. Howard

“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

“This is our skin and nobody has the right to crumple us like a paper only to find another skin to write on, and…

— Heema Shirvaikar

“As to the inventions of printing and of paper, we generally consider these in the wrong oredr, attributing too much importnace to printing and…

— Norbert Wiener

When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set up ready…

— John Harvey Kellogg