Wayne Swan - Book

Famous quotes containing the word book:

“How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)

“A book is like a man—clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)

“A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it ...”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)