Book Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and…

— John Locke

Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious…

— Yann Martel

Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They…

— Gabriel Zaid

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar…

— Voltaire

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

— Henry Ward Beecher

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy…

— Walter Benjamin

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

— Ann Patchett

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek…

— Orson Scott Card

“We can live in a society founded on the book and yet not read, or we can live in a society where the book…

— Alberto Manguel

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much.…

— Doris Lessing

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as…

— Richard Curtis