Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel Butler
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.
Tony Buzan
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
A. S. Byatt
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.
When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.
Ellen Hopkins
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace