Book Quote by Joseph Conrad

“express written permission of the author. Although the author and publisher have made every effort to ensure that the”

— Amy Wright

“rights reserved. No part of this bulletin may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief…

— Oster, Maggie

“Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.”

— Elena Ferrante

“But this book does not offer a single page of original and unpublished work. What then is the need, now, for such a book?”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“The forcible writer stands bodily behind his words with his experiences. He does not make books out of books, but he has been there…

— Henry David Thoreau

“This book is for you, the reader. Without you, this book wouldn't be possible. None of this would be.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“The ultimate function of a book, however, is to be read, not to be looked or picked at.”

— Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Afterword to The Restored Finnegans Wake

“An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there…

— Roy Blount Jr

“Of course you can judge a book by its cover; moreover, we are obliged to.”

— Simon Garfield

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

“The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the price of this book, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable…

— Richard Bard