Book Quote by Norman Cousins

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

— Angela Carter

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

— Frederick Philip Grove

A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader…

— Jorge Luis Borges

A book is a book is a book.

— Maurice Sendak

My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated…

— Henry Miller

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

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

— Geraldine Brooks

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

The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists fully only…

— Rebecca Solnit