Block Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A book that is shut is but a block.

— Thomas Fuller

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Books aren’t just my defenses, the sandbags I use to fortify my position; they are also the building blocks of my soul, and I…

— Jonathan Hull

“Life has a way of revealing a side of itself that no rightful mind would expect. It’s like a maze, or pieces to a…

— L.Y. Marlow

But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful.…

— Leon Wieseltier

The covers of this book are too far apart.

— Ambrose Bierce

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

— Lee Child

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but…

— David Levithan

An unread book is just a block of paper.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

— John Berger

I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have…

— Steven Hall

We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.

— Deb Caletti