quotations about books
A book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.
KARL LAGERFELD
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"Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld", Women's Wear Daily, Sep. 12, 2014
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. AUDEN
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
The Book: Man's Chief Weapon Against Tedium.
GARRISON KEILLOR
"How I Spent My Winter Vacation,", Salon, Jan. 5, 2010
Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit in selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.
JO WALTON
Among Others
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
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