It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
Salman Rushdie

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Umberto Eco

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto Eco

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.
Lionel Blue

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.
Karl Lagerfeld

Who learns most from a good book is the author.
Jose Bergamin

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
Marilyn vos Savant

When a new book is published, read an old one.
Samuel Rogers

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
Bette Midler

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
Lord Acton

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
Carl Sandburg

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
Carl Sandburg

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.
Loretta Lynn

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
Graham Greene

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.
Thomas Wolfe

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
Thomas Wolfe

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.
Thomas Perry

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Anthony Burgess

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.
Nicholas Sparks