Book Quote by David Quammen

“Of course anyone who loves books buys more of them than she or he can hope to read in a lifetime. A good book,…

— Boilerplate Rino

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

— Alice Hoffman

“Books about books are a rare species, special tomes for writers and book lovers. More than an affirmation of taste, a book about books…

— Tom Cardamone

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep…

— Lewis Buzbee

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

— Chris Ware

I love books. Probably too much for my own good.

— Ryan Holiday

Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.

— Alexandra Petri

“Despite the rising popularity of the downloadable e-text, I still care about physical books, gravitate to handsome editions and pretty dust jackets, and enjoy…

— Michael Dirda

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel,…

— D. H. Lawrence

“A library of mostly unread books is far more inspiring than a library of books already read. There’s nothing more exciting than finishing a…

— Gabe Habash

Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more…

— A. Edward Newton