Books Quote by Alan Marshall

“Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been…

— Walter Moers

“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility…

— J.R. Miller

“A wise man once said that if a book was not worth reading twice it was not worth reading once.”

— Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson

“I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing, than to…

— Eric Diehl

“Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit…

— Donald Miller

“Why would a guy spend five years writing a book when he can buy one for ten bucks?”

— Richard Johnson

“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of…

— Jane Smiley

“It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.”

— Christopher Morley

“A book worth reading is worth owning.”

— John Ruskin

“Every time that you read a book, it is like depositing money in the bank. You spend every weekend reading a pile of books…

— Heather O'Neill

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's…

— Colette

“I want to use this book as a vehicle to help you develop enough wealth- both physical and emotional- so that you can be…

— Tony Robbins