I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs. Zelda Fitzgerald
The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book. Stéphane Mallarmé
At present I'm re-reading Traherne's Centuries of Meditations which I think almost the most beautiful book (in prose, I mean, excluding poets) in English. Thomas Traherne
"How can you read such a beautiful book and turn your back on it?” "Never said it wasn't a beautiful book. I just don't believe there's some man up there in the black who gets off on watching us pound our head on the pavement six times a day. Kameron Hurley