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

— 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

“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

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

— Raymond Chandler

“A printer can do the same thing and much more. He can preserve the Law, but he can also preserve the words of madmen.…

— Marek Halter

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

— J.R. Ward

Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries…

— Emil Ruder

“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

“My love of publishing goes back to my first job on the hometown newspaper when I was a 16-year-old cub reporter, but I caught…

— Phil Cousineau

“Know that blank pages feel the urge of the ink as much as tears paint a different pain, changes”

— Goitsemang Sandra Mvula