Book Quote by Margaret Deland

For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little pits and…

— Lori Foster

“Do not buy finery or jewels, because books are worth more than they are. Adorn your understanding with their precious ideas, because there is…

— Luisa Capetillo

I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.

— Cassandra Clare

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

— Henry David Thoreau

Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer.

— Mark Twain

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures…

— George Bernard Shaw

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

— Geraldine Brooks

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

— William Drummond

“Great books are weighted and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.”

— Mark Twain

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...

— Anna Quindlen