Axes Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

— Edward Hirsch

Books are solitudes in which we meet.

— Rebecca Solnit

A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others…

— David Suzuki

“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of…

— Marcel Proust

We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they…

— Libba Bray

A book is a book is a book.

— Maurice Sendak

The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations.

— Jean Rousset

“Books: our unfailing companions”

— Cicero

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

— Maurice Sendak

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

Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.

— Jeanette Winterson