Bondage Quote by Dean Koontz

“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling. His voice…

— Lauren Groff

“I wanted to give a sense of the people of the book, the different hands that had made it, used it, protected it.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“In the end I decided to hold onto the book, my thought being that his story was a unique one, and so best to…

— Patrick deWitt

“So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed…

— Annie Dillard

“It hardly mattered to him that [his] book was forgotten and that it served no use; and the question of its worth at any…

— John Williams

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying.…

— Virginia Woolf

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I…

— Chloe Thurlow

“Darkus held up The Code and quickly tore out the page he'd been reading. Knightley winced. He'd seen many dead bodies and witnessed many…

— Rohan Gavin

“He wondered what book he might be reading when he finally breathed his last, and determined to grab a good one as soon as…

— Andrew Peterson

“The reader will pardon us another little digression; foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful . . . .”

— Victor Hugo