Book Love Paperback by James Charlton

Product Details

• Publisher: Pushcart Press (2017-02-21)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 130 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781888889833
• Item Weight: 149.69 grams
• Dimensions: 18.29 x 12.7 x 0.76 cm

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.

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.”