“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”— Charles Dickens Related Quotes “For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.”— Eileen Favorite “Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren’t cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.”— Scarlett Thomas “All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are”— Niall Williams