Book Quote by Susan Stewart

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

— Michael Ondaatje

A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

— Bertrand Russell

A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of…

— Isabel Allende

“In an infinite universe, all things are possible -- within physical limits, that is -- and any book that can be written does physically…

— Rand Miller

A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.

— Isabel Allende

On the whole, infinity is a fairly palpable aspect of this business of publishing, if only because it extends a dead author's existence beyond…

— Joseph Brodsky

“Before unearthing this letter, I had questioned myself about the ways in which a book can be infinite. I could think of nothing other…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order…

— Mark Kingwell

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it doesn't mean…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

“They think they know the book by its cover, but the book knows what it is. Now he knew better; if the book never…

— Ken Kesey