Book Quote by Jonathan Lethem

“A book is an experiment, and as with all experiments, there is a sense of uncertainty about how it will turn out.”

— Jerome Groopman

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

— Annie Dillard

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

— John Edgar Wideman

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.

— Rosemary Wells

“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear…

— Edward P. Morgan

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

— Edward P. Morgan

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

— Aravind Adiga

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

— Alan Bennett

“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read…

— A. Edward Newton

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.

— Sara Gruen