Average Quote by John Updike

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

— Geraldine Brooks

You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I…

— Bob Hope

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

— Alan Bennett

Books are low-tech, portable packages of the widest range of human experience, presented in a format which gives time to grasp complex ideas or…

— Michael Rosen

Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf…

— Ben Dolnick

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

— Kathy Acker

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith

Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought somebody the…

— Valerie Bertinelli

The better the book the more room for the reader.

— Holbrook Jackson

When I was a kid I was a huge reader, I always had a book in my hand.

— Shannon Purser

A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have…

— Mo Willems

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