Blood Quote by Tahir Shah

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper,…

— Tahir Shah

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make…

— James M. Barrie

“Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what…

— Carew Papritz

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

— Todd McFarlane

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention…

— Pierre Loti

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

— Molly Crabapple

A book is like carrying a garden in your pocket. It always is full of life, new smells, and new things to see. Always…

— Curly

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.”

— J.R. Ward

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