“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
Source: Sesame and Lilies
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Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
From the thirteenth book, "The Book of the Dead"
The Pillow Book
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) German poet, critic and scholar
Auf eine ähnliche Weise sollen in der vollkommnen Litteratur alle Bücher nur Ein Buch seyn, und in einem solchen ewig werdenden Buche wird das Evangelium der Menschheit und der Bildung offenbart werden.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 95
“Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.”
Mark Haddon (1962) English writer and illustrator
“All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book III, Ch. 5. Upon some Verses of Virgil
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray