Books Quote by Elizabeth Berg

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

— Brent Weeks

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens…

— John Green

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic…

— Alain de Botton

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do…

— Norman Cousins

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

— T. S. Eliot

The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book…

— John Ruskin

The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much…

— Norman Cousins

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.…

— Anthony Powell

Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature…

— Nicola Griffith

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

— Carlos Fuentes

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or…

— Barbara Kingsolver