Books Quote by David Davis

“I had written to friends for money, of course, but the Atlantic Ocean is deep and wide and money doesn't hurry from the other…

— James Baldwin

“loathe collectible books anyway. People getting all moony over particular paper carcasses. It’s the ideas that matter, man.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Books are not luxuries. They are the meat and drink for the mind.”

— Andrew Taylor

“When I was a poor kid in Maine, my collection of used paperbacks was like a pile of cheap vacations.”

— Stephen King

“Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.”

— William Collins

“I am not entirely persuaded that selling a book is like selling a pig.”

— Kathleen A. Flynn

“In books there’s nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for…

— Steve Aylett

“This is what we do with books: we put our longings and our questions and our angst onto trading ships and send them out…

— Julian Darius

“... the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.”

— Kate Atkinson

“We profit little by books we do not enjoy.”

— John Lubbock

“Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and…

— Mark Twain

“I grabbed the closest box of books and heaved it onto my bed. It contained all the books I had read in Iraq. Dog-eared,…

— Michael Anthony