Black Quote by Jay Roach

“Information that a book possesses is made of time”

— Sunday Adelaja

“This book would never have been completed without the help of a number of different people. Many of these people are listed here, but…

— Brinkmann, Ron

“His chosen format was the pamphlet: quick to write, cheap to print, cheap to buy, a form constantly in dialogue with itself, as pamphleteer…

— Anna Beer

“An old book was a time capsule. When you opened the front cover, you opened a door to another world—a world accessible through a…

— Stephen Parrish

“The tumults of time are oft passed by in records of the private memoirist; for our days consist not of the Senatorial speech and…

— M. T. Anderson

This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and…

— Scott McClanahan

“CHAPTER III—THE LARK”

— Victor Hugo

What was fun for me with this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was to start out with the principle that went, "We're going to…

— George Saunders

“Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than should many thousands, indeed millions, buy it…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time — such as…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over.…

— Joe Hill