Artifacts Quote by Douglas Groothuis

“With its weight and solidity, a book signals to the world that there are ideas worth preserving in a form that carries heft, and…

— Steven L. Carter

“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked…

— Michel Faber

“The sole/soul purpose of a book is to be read.”

— Dani J Caile

“...for some of us, books are as important as anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat,…

— Anne Lamont

“Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these…

— Anne Lamott

“A book is kind of like a good Horcrux, if we can imagine that -- a piece of the writer's soul, preserved in a…

— Cheryl B. Klein

Writers are naturally obsessed with books, the tangible artifacts of their labor. Even beyond the text, I love the physicality of books, the possibilities…

— Ken Liu

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what…

— Susan Sontag

“The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond…

— Ben Jacobs

“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words…

— Nicholas Carr