I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over readers contr…

- Sylvia Beach

I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone whispers something…

- Sylvia Beach

Fitting people with books is about as difficult as fitting them with shoes.

- Sylvia Beach

[On working with James Joyce:] So, either you run your publishing business far away, where your writer can't get at it, or you publish right alongsid…

- Sylvia Beach