Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art…

With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's…

— James Patterson

“Buying books in that 20 year period of my life in which the internet pervaded much of what I did, was quick and simple.…

— Mark Boyle

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.

— Mason Cooley

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.

— Anonymous

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

— Robert Henri

“There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air.”

— Richard Marek

“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet.”

— Neil Gaiman

“I find books in used-book stores, chain and independent stores, on friends’ shelves and being read by some woman sitting opposite me on the…

— Walter Mosley

We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality.

— Sudha Murty

My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my…

— John Burroughs

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

— Laurie Anderson

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

— Carl Reiner

“These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.”

— Charles Dickens

“Wow. Death by books. That would have been some way to go.”

— Beth Reekles