Books

Famous quotes containing the word books:

“Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States—first, murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“They lard their lean books with the fat of others’ works.”
—Robert Burton (1577–1640)

“Only my books anoint me,
and a few friends,
those who reach into my veins.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)