Book Quote by Charles Lamb

A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning…

— Charles Lamb

[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read…

— Thomas Jefferson

The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of…

— Agnes Repplier

“You need not to burn copies of a book. Just make people feel indifferent to the book.”

— Lara Biyuts

People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it…

— Samuel Johnson

I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

— Gail Sheehy

“You might have noticed that I have been sending you used books. I have done this not to save money, but to make a…

— Yann Martel

“I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a…

— Nick Hornby

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

— Paulo Coelho

What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

— Richard Laymon

A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.

— Moses ibn Ezra