Book Quote by Italo Calvino

“There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.”

— Jarod Kintz

“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of…

— Marcel Proust

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence…

— Robert Harris

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

“To imagine writing as absence seems to be a simple repetition, in transcendental terms, of both the religious principle of the inalterable and yet…

— Michel Foucault

“The greatest book ever composed was marked at one point unconventional. Also it was marked difficult to read and comprehend, especially in its original…

— Marcus G Monroe

“All novels are impossible. We would not wish to read them if they were not. Can you imagine how dull a tale would be…

— Caitlin Williams

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

— Stephane Mallarme

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

— Hosea Ballou

“Without the author there is nothing.”

— Michael E. Bierman

“[…] there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of…

— Pierre Bayard