Blank Quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written;…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is written in…

— Russell Smith

But...books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and…

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“[…]when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform…

— Mohsin Hamid

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

— Geraldine Brooks

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky…

— Jasper Fforde

Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

— R. D. Laing

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

— Virginia Woolf

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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