quotations about books
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
J. M. COETZEE
Summertime
Books, like bricks, depend upon each other for support.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxis
God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distand and the dead.... They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society ... of the best and greatest of our race.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING
Thoughts
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. AUDEN
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did not breathe or think, but they grew and gave a sense of potential so much larger than whatever was written on their pages.
TIM LEBBON
Dawn