Books Quote by Paul Collins

These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their…

— Terry Pratchett

I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.

— Dan Brown

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages..

— Naomi Ragen

“Crossing my arms over my chest, I said, a little too heartily, “So this is the library.” There certainly couldn’t be any doubt on…

— Lauren Willig

“This young gentleman was like something from out of a leather-bound book!”

— Lindsay Eland

“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long…

— H.G. Wells

“Of all books printed, probably not more than half are ever read. Many are embalmed in public libraries; many go into private quarters to…

— Flora Haines Loughead

“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

“Don Raimondo tells me what he can’t tell them. “The emptiness on the surface of a wall left by a sold bookshelf is the…

— Erri DeLuca

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and…

— John Locke

“In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.”

— Rachel Hall

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures…

— George Bernard Shaw