Among Books Quotes
- A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to… — Mary Augusta Ward
- Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively)… — Daniel J. Boorstin
- I wanted to live among books. — Alberto Manguel
- I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon