A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Charles Baudelaire
Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built. — Leon Uris
This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and — Roger Penrose
Consider the responses called forth by the bible, homer, shakespeare – let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. — Chaim Potok
I’m constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. — Chaim Potok
Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold. — Esther Forbes
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. — Edward Gibbon
I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea. — C. S. Forester
My favorite monologue in the book is kate harrington’s story of her relationship with truman. — George Plimpton
A film based on a jolly good john grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin. — Tessa Charlotte Rampling
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. — Mary MacLane
I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary. — Mary MacLane
The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb — Edwin Booth
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad — Robert Musil