Attention Quote by Pierre Loti

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make…

— James M. Barrie

“I always get the strangest looks when I tell people that I enjoy purposely staining sheets of paper with many tiny blotches of permanent…

— Michael Kroft

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

— Todd McFarlane

No matter how beautiful the paper, artwork, printing, and binding, I'm seldom drawn to a book unless it's by a writer I care about…

— Michael Dirda

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper,…

— Tahir Shah

Writers are naturally obsessed with books, the tangible artifacts of their labor. Even beyond the text, I love the physicality of books, the possibilities…

— Ken Liu

I used to put black ink on the author's name in a book and write my name instead to check how it would look…

— Gulzar

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

— Cornelia Funke

As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book…

— Michel de Montaigne

Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

— R. D. Laing

A book unopened alters not the ink on it's pages

— J.R. Ward