“buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.” — arthur schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity... — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
“A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard” — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
I think I'm becoming addicted to buying books!...Just gotta make time to read them now. — Audrina Patridge Copy Share Image
“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them. - Florence Day” — Ashley Poston Copy Share Image
Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
“She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people’s lives. That was release.” — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I find any kind of 'organizing' very difficult. And that has irksome consequences when it comes to books, since I've often wound… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“I drive my husband crazy because I don’t browse books—I buy books. And he’s always giving me these ultimatums like, ‘If you… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Buying clothes is as good as buying books, but the difference is that clothes make you beautiful form the outside and books… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
“[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
“Jack shook his head. 'Books. What is it with women and books? My sisters were the same. They were always buying books… — Hazel Osmond Copy Share Image
With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids'… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“What a delightful library you have at Pemberley, Mr. Darcy!” “It ought to be good,” he replied, “it has been the work… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“The more freely a librarian mingles with readers, and the greater the amount of assistance he renders them, the more intense does… — Samuel Green Copy Share Image
I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
“...it is when I'm buying books that I encounter the greediest people: the person selling his collection who will push to extract… — Shaun Bythell Copy Share Image
“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm such an old fart that I started buying books on film and TV and radio and music when, for television, the… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
“When about 16 years of age I happened to meet with a book, written by one Tryon, recommending a vegetable diet. I… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Buying books in that 20 year period of my life in which the internet pervaded much of what I did, was quick… — Mark Boyle Copy Share Image
“Schopenhauer remarked that buying books would be better if you could also buy the time to read them. Books are different from… — John Durham Peters Copy Share Image
Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line.… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never… — John Waters Copy Share Image
What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Lena: I swore half the money I made waitressing at Joanna's went to buying books instead of filling my savings account, but… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“I do have an interest in this book, which is for sale. (If you have bought it, dear reader, I thank you.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
![“[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of.” quote by Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a62/paul-auster-351_addiction_t-he-only-luxury-he-allows-himself-is-bu_2280053.jpg)
![“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to…” quote by Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/623/neil-gaiman-29_apologizing_d-on-t-ever-apologise-to-an-author-for-b_921361.jpg)
