“It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.”

“I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page”

“I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.”

“The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at theduring the first eight pages.”

“We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.”

“This is a long book, not only in pages.”

“Torn from their destined page (unworthy meed
Of knightly counsel and heroic deed).”

“All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books.”

“At first, all is black and white.
Black on white.
That's where I'm walking, through pages.
These pages.
Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of.”

“In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page-boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk— they are all part of the curriculum.”