Book Quote by Sean Norris

A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like rings on…

— Margo Kaufman

“Books about books are a rare species, special tomes for writers and book lovers. More than an affirmation of taste, a book about books…

— Tom Cardamone

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

— Brent Weeks

“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves”

— Russell Banks

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our…

— Joseph Conrad

“Every book tells a different story to the person who reads it. How they perceive that book will depend on who they are. A…

— Charles de Lint

“—I really prefer books. No matter how bad a book is, it's unique, but people are all so ordinary. —I think we really like…

— William Gaddis

“We are what we love to read, and when we admit to loving a book, we admit that the book represents some aspect of…

— Nina Sankovitch

“People have emotional ties to books, more often than you think...”

— Jill Hathaway

“Your taste in books says more about you than any other single object in your house. It reflects your interest, your intelligence, your sophistication,…

— Anonymous

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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