Book Quote by Laurence Sterne

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

— John Derbyshire

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

— Anonymous

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting…

— Daphne du Maurier

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

— Francis Bacon

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

— Jeff Bezos

Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.

— Richelle Mead

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

— Angela Carter

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

— Anthony Trollope

“The imagination can never run dry if you fill it with books!”

— Jessica Munzlinger

In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.

— Oliver Goldsmith