“Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse – each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality.”

People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.

When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline.

I’m more inclined to linger in the science pages of ‘The Week’ magazine.

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.

When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.

Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

All my childhood heroes lived on the page. Now they live in me.

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I’ll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I’ll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.

Everything that happened to you is a page that’s been turned and is done with.

I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall.