Alphabet Quote by Russell Smith

I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.

— Dan Brown

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One…

— Carl Sagan

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages,…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky…

— Jasper Fforde

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

— Margaret Atwood

“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently…

— Umberto Eco

“True,' I said, amazed. Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or devine, that lie outside books. Now I…

— Umberto Eco

I remember, as a kid, I couldn't wait to get my library card, get my first book. There was a sphinx on the cover,…

— Keith Hernandez

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

— Geraldine Brooks