Book Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

— Norman Cousins

“If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

— Helen Dunmore

A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader…

— Jorge Luis Borges

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

— Angela Carter

A book is a book is a book.

— Maurice Sendak

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is…

— Shane Warren Jones

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

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

— Frederick Philip Grove

A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have…

— Mo Willems

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

The stitch of a book is its words.

— Rumer Godden