Books Quote by Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

“Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.”

— Alan Jacobs

“How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Books are a finer world within our world.”

— Alexander Smith

“The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of…

— Edith Wharton

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space…

— Terry Pratchett

“We should believe in quality of books rather than quantity of books.”

— M.H. Rakib

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

— Henry David Thoreau

“For me, books were not the containers of words so much as the words themselves, and the value of a given book was determined…

— Paul Auster

“The worth of a book is too be measured by what you can carry away from it.”

— James Bryce

“Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them.”

— Donald Sassoon