Books Quote by Jacob Weisberg

“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

“When I deeply see: • bedsheets painted with highlighter? … children live here! • dead rose left too long in vase? … lingering memories…

— Zondervan

“Oh, but clever words On pages turn to fragments, circles, points and lines And they cover them like carpets With graceful, meaningless, ornamental designs”

— Aaron Weiss

“There was nothing like the smell of books, particularly old books—that magical combination of oaky aged paper, the rich robustness of leather, the silkiness…

— H.Y. Hanna

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“I loved the physicality of books just as much as the stories inside, the feel of pages between my fingers, the intricacies of classic…

— Elizabeth Joy Arnold

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages..

— Naomi Ragen

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on,…

— Knut Hamsun

“The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of leather bindings,…

— Isabel Allende

“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long…

— H.G. Wells

“I guess you can call me "old fashioned". I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I may have…

— Felicia Johnson

“It had a crisp paper jacket, unlike the paper-covered library books I was used to, and the way the pages parted, I could tell…

— Allison Hoover Bartlett