Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author, Anna Quindlen writes about books:

"It is not simply that we need information, but that we want to savor it, carry it with us, feel the heft of it under our arm. We like the thing itself.
It is not possible that the book is over. Too many people love it so."

~ Passion for Books, Edited by Harold Rabinowitz & Rob Kaplan. Three Rivers Press, 1999.