Book Quote by Lynda Barry

Sometimes you don't know what a book is about until you are finished with it and you're talking about it.

— Jenny Han

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't…

— Christopher Isherwood

A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of…

— Isabel Allende

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

— Maxwell Perkins

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

— Salman Rushdie

A book is kind because its pages let us know when it is coming to an end.

— Dara Wier

A book is a book is a book.

— Maurice Sendak

Just because you read the back of a book don't mean you know the whole story

— Anonymous

When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong…

— Nancy Pearl

If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about wanting to…

— Lisa Jewell

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

— Julian Barnes