“The only bad book was a book that didn't have any pages in it.”

“Only bad books have good endings.If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.”

“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”

“Didn't they like you? Didn't they, like you, need a heart that was a book with no last page? Turn the leaves.”

“Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine, he thought, and the nuances to be teased from its pages are nearly infinite in their variety and coquettish appeal. And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.”

“There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages, which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages are there. Only you don’t see them.”