Book Quote by Joseph Howe

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books... and only three cookbooks.

— Sudha Murty

I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place in my…

— Marion Dane Bauer

You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to…

— Zadie Smith

“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

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down…

— Anonymous

My books are not for everybody.

— George Pelecanos

“Books are the one luxury I deem a necessity. If my purchases lead us into poverty, then at least we will be well-read paupers.”

— Mark Brownlow

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

— Henry David Thoreau

My parents were really poor. We never bought books because you could go to the library. It would be stupid to buy one.

— Beth Macy

I could not write my books without the library's help. Even with the ease of Internet research, I find books to be indispensable when…

— Peg Kehret