Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.

When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose

Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool, but it will never substitute for holding the book. I feel certain that at least within my lifetime, everyone will still be going to the bookstore and buying printed books. Thank God I'll die before I have to worry about whether the printed book itself will disappear. That's something I don't want to live to see.