Book Quote by Florence King

Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract…

— Marisha Pessl

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make…

— James M. Barrie

“All books are coloring books, if you are in possession of a childlike imagination, and a box of markers.”

— Jarod Kintz

“From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and the entire…

— John Updike

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that…

— Quintin Jardine

the shop owner did not try to push the book on any of her customers. She knew that in the wrong hands such a…

— Nicole Krauss

“My illusions about the world caused me to think that in order to benefit by my reading I ought to possess all the knowledge…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think…

— Lionel Barrymore

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some…

— Don Novello

“Bookstores contain the residue of thousands of people who went in there to find an experience, a narrative that guided them to a new…

— Lauren Leto