Consistent Quote by Clive Thompson

I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the…

— James W. Loewen

“It needs to be repeated that books are much more than merely vehicles for text. Awareness of the way a book is created, the…

— Roderick Cave & Sara Ayad

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

— Seth Godin

Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important.

— James W. Loewen

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her…

— Jeanette Winterson

“But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes to them. A book is…

— Umberto Eco

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

— Henry David Thoreau

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

— Stephen D. Krashen

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

— Angela Carter

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

— James W. Loewen

A book is a book is a book.

— Maurice Sendak