Books Quote by Stephen Coles

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from…

— John Updike

Images sometimes capture particular periods in history. The unreachable green light, beckoning from across the bay in 'The Great Gatsby,' has become a symbol…

— David Ignatius

In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man’s life through not…

— Jessica Helfand

“On the top of my desk there are initials, carved into the wood, and dates...This carving, done with a pencil dug many times into…

— Margaret Atwood

“ Déjà vu Orwell's 1984 ”

— David Baldacci

It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures... I suddenly felt an urge to write…

— Tove Jansson

My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.

— Pierre Cardin

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

— Vera Wang

“Isn’t it amazing how we take them for granted? Those little black marks on paper. Twenty-six different shapes known as letters, arranged in endless…

— Kevin Horsley

I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.' So I…

— Geraldine Brooks

I am sure in some years from now you will see new posters with just white space and four lines in Garamond.

— Adrian Frutiger

“The text, in its mass, is comparable to a sky, at once flat and smooth, deep, without edges and without landmarks; like the soothsayer…

— Roland Barthes