George Steiner Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of which Borges is the fabulist. He is no reader who has not heard, in his inward ear, the call of the hundreds of thousands, of the millions of volumes which stand in the stacks of the British Library asking to be read. For there is in each book a gamble against oblivion, a wager against silence, which can be won only when the book is opened again (but in contrast to man, the book can wait centuries for the hazard of resurrection.)

  George Steiner

  Book, Night, Men

• Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

  George Steiner

  Book, Reading, Boredom

• Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

  George Steiner

  Book, Baffled, Privilege

  George Steiner, Laure Adler (2017). “A Long Saturday: Conversations”, p.61, University of Chicago Press

• Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand.

  George Steiner

  Wall, Book, Winter

• What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?

  George Steiner

  Book, Worthwhile, Committees

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.41, Faber & Faber

• Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or politically, or of course economically, in the world at large.

  George Steiner

  Book, Literature, World

  "Do Books Matter?". Book edited by Brian Baumfield, 1973.

• The age of the book is almost gone.

  George Steiner

  Book, Reading, Age

  The Daily Mail, June 27, 1988.

• The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

  George Steiner

  Book, Reading, Hands

  George Steiner (2010). “No Passion Spent”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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