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The Quotable Book Lover
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Published January 1, 1833
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April 27, 2026
4/5: “The Quotable Book Lover,” edited by Ben Jacobs
Here are 10 quotes — one from each chapter — from this book that I picked up (for $2) at the Friends of the Eugene Library’s Used Book Sale at the county fairgrounds earlier this month:
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours.”
— J.D. Salinger, via Holden Caulfield in “The Catcher in the Rye”
“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
— Norman Mailer
“There’s no such thing as autobiography. There’s only art and lies.”
— Jeanette Winterson
“I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.”
— Groucho Marx
“What is more important in a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists.”
— Archibald MacLeish
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”
— Mark Twain
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
— Joseph Brodsky
“For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket, and took surreptitious looks at it to make sure that the ink had not faded.”
— J. M. Barrie
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
— Italo Calvino
“Books are my disease.”
— James Logan (1674-1751)
Here are 10 quotes — one from each chapter — from this book that I picked up (for $2) at the Friends of the Eugene Library’s Used Book Sale at the county fairgrounds earlier this month:
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours.”
— J.D. Salinger, via Holden Caulfield in “The Catcher in the Rye”
“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
— Norman Mailer
“There’s no such thing as autobiography. There’s only art and lies.”
— Jeanette Winterson
“I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.”
— Groucho Marx
“What is more important in a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists.”
— Archibald MacLeish
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”
— Mark Twain
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
— Joseph Brodsky
“For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket, and took surreptitious looks at it to make sure that the ink had not faded.”
— J. M. Barrie
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
— Italo Calvino
“Books are my disease.”
— James Logan (1674-1751)
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