Back Quote by David Weinberger

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

— Neil Gaiman

“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 can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

— Bruce Jackson

Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which…

— Jeanette Winterson

Why by a book when you can join a library.

— Ricky Gervais

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.

— Ben Jonson

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

— Christopher Hitchens

Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.

— Sarah Churchwell

When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.

— Neel Mukherjee

Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper and cheaper…

— Stephen Colbert

Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast…

— Larry McMurtry

I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.

— Mohsin Hamid