He has a certain syrup, but it doesn’t pour.

- Gertrude Stein

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Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

- Virginia Woolf

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A book holds a house of gold.

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In publishing, we are the shepherds of this gift of the book.

- Carolyn Reidy

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

- Francis Bacon

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Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

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Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them

- Samuel Butler

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Books are like movies of the mind.

- Sue Grafton

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My books are chewing gum for the mind.

- Micky Spilane

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The book is the greatest interactive medium of all time. You can underline it, write in the margins, fold down a page, skip ahead. And you can take it anywhere.

- Michael Lynton

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A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

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Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

- John Wain

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He has a certain syrup, but it doesn’t pour.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

A book holds a house of gold.

In publishing, we are the shepherds of this gift of the book.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them

Books are like movies of the mind.

My books are chewing gum for the mind.

The book is the greatest interactive medium of all time. You can underline it, write in the margins, fold down a page, skip ahead. And you can take it anywhere.

A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

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