Book Love: A Celebration of Writers, Readers & the Printed and Bound Book - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888889837 ISBN 13: 9781888889833

Publisher: Pushcart Press, 2017

Synopsis

More than 600 quotations from centuries of observations on writing, reading and books.

Published for those who agree with Jason Epstein that “actual books will continue to be irreplaceable depositories of our collective wisdom.”

Contributors include Eudora Welty, Patti Smith, Henry Miller, John Updike, Cicero, Groucho Marx, George Orwell, Marcel Proust, William Faulkner, E.L. Doctorow, Woody Allen, C.S. Lewis, Saul Bellow, Dorothy Parker, and hundreds more. Illustrations Throughout

About this title

About the Author

James Charlton is the editor of The Writer's Quotation Book, The Writer's Home Companion, and other titles. He lives in New York.

Bill Henderson is the founder and editor of the Pushcart Prize. He received the 2006 National Book Critic Circle’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Poets & Writers / Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. He is also the author of several memoirs, including All My Dogs: A Life. The founder of the Lead Pencil Club, Henderson lives on Long Island and In Maine where he runs the Pushcart bookstore – “the world’s smallest bookstore.”

About this edition

• Publisher: Pushcart Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1888889837
• ISBN 13: 9781888889833
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130
• Editor: Charlton James