Alive Quote by Henry Miller

A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader…

— Jorge Luis Borges

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

— Norman Cousins

The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only…

— Rebecca Solnit

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

— Ali Smith

A book is like carrying a garden in your pocket. It always is full of life, new smells, and new things to see. Always…

— Curly

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

— Frederick Philip Grove

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

— Geraldine Brooks

The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists fully only…

— Rebecca Solnit

A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to…

— Joe Meno

The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to…

— Michael Silverblatt

I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or…

— Marilynne Robinson

A book , once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in…

— James Branch Cabell