Lucy Turnbull - Books

Famous quotes containing the word books:

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

“I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“With a few exceptions, the critics of children’s books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something good in every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory.”
—Katharine S. White (1892–1977)