Book Quote by John Crowley

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

— Emma Donoghue

“ Books — the warm, leather-skinned weight of them in your hands, the way they smelled when you lifted them close to your face.…

— Richard K. Morgan

The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the…

— Anonymous

Books are attracted to me. They make a beeline for me, and stick to me. I have been so fond of them that at…

— Sergei Eisenstein

“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

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints…

— Franz Kafka

“How many words grace the pages of this book! They are supposed to bestir memory. As if words could remember! For words are miserable…

— Franz Kafka

“PAPER TOWERS The library was on the second floor of the House, not far from my room. It had two floors—the first held the…

— Chloe Neill

Books have their destinies.

— Horace

I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had…

— Neil Gaiman

“It stretches, this little trick of mine, from book to book, and everything else, comparatively, plays over the surface of it. The order, the…

— Henry James

Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

— Audrey Niffenegger