The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
- Calvin Triflin

I wouldn't dream of trying out my ideas on children on anyone else.  A book should be the work of an author's imagination not by the work of a committee.
- Beverly Clearly

‎"I like a thin book because it will steady a table, a leather volume because it will strop a razor, and a heavy book because it can be thrown at a cat."

Mark Twain

I do then with my friends as I do with my books, I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many of them can get through to you.
- Mortimer J. Adler