Been Quote by Geraldine Brooks

“At the rate these illuminations appear, it will no doubt take me a long time to gather the material for even one single book.…

— Marcel Bénabou

During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and…

— Joshua Foer

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd…

— John Gardner

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.…

— Anthony Powell

I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's…

— Janette Turner Hospital

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

“True,' I said, amazed. Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or devine, that lie outside books. Now I…

— Umberto Eco

In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man’s life through not…

— Jessica Helfand

It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as…

— Joseph Butler

“For ordinary books are like meteors. Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix, all its…

— Bruno Schulz

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre.…

— Marilyn Hacker