Book Quote by Jerome K. Jerome

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.

— Jerome K. Jerome

“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility…

— J.R. Miller

The cow's point of view deserves more literary attention.

— Mason Cooley

Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.

— Cassandra Clare

“For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending…

— Sara Sheridan

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

A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels.

— Sir Harry Lauder

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

— John Ruskin

Good books are for consideration after, too.

— Stephen King

A book worth reading is worth buying.

— John Ruskin

While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point…

— Terry Pratchett

“Books can move people, inspire people, change people's lives, and even impact whole societies. They are certainly worth spending an afternoon with.”

— Jan Surasky