Book Quote by Cormac McCarthy

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.

— Laura Bush

A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don't know what you're going to find.

— Emily Rodda

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

— Geraldine Brooks

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you…

— Samuel West

Sometimes you don't know what a book is about until you are finished with it and you're talking about it.

— Jenny Han

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and…

— John Darnielle

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

— Frederick Philip Grove

Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human…

— Anthony Doerr

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

— Clifton Fadiman

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

— Salman Rushdie

I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something…

— Gregory Maguire

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

— Jodi Picoult