Book Quote by Northrop Frye

The book is the world's most patient medium.

— Northrop Frye

The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.

— Jacob Weisberg

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

— Edgar Allan Poe

The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average person is…

— George Orwell

“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes”

— Harold Bloom

What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be passed from…

— Louise Erdrich

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount…

— Jesse James Garrett

“Books are like a disease. Once you've got it, it's incurrable and lifelong”

— Janice Young Brooks

The book is so rich and yet it is well done. A rare achievement indeed!

— Gil Kalai

“The world of books is the wealth of being.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita