Be good Quote by Robert Southey

This book out-lives, out-loves, out-fits, out-lasts, out-reaches, out-runs, and out-ranks all books. This book is faith producing. It is hope awakening. It is death…

— Arcturus Z. Conrad

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

— Sven Birkerts

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

“But you don't know how to read anymore! When you open a book, you do it in the faith and assurances that you are…

— Philip Wylie

you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might…

— Cornelia Funke

“You can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might…

— Antonio Muñoz Molina

Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause…

— John Bunyan

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Do not get glum when you are no longer understood, little book. Do not curse your fate. Do not reach up from readers' laps…

— Joanna Russ

To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?

— Catullus

In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.

— Paul Smith

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

— John James Audubon