Books Quote by Zanesh Catkin

An unread book is just a block of paper.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— J.R. Ward

“Every writer in this book has a slightly different process, but they all start with the same thing: a blank page.”

— Timothy Ferriss

Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a…

— Sherman Alexie

“For under scrutiny you will find that even an open book can have a surprise scribbled in its margins.”

— Violet Haberdasher

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

— Frederick Philip Grove

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

— John Prine

“I'm the cover of a book, Whose pages are still being written”

— Richard L. Ratliff

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you…

— Samuel West

“Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence.”

— Will Schwalbe

Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

— R. D. Laing

“A library will continue to function nicely without every other position, but without the pages it would grind to a stop within a quiet…

— Don Borchert