Book Quote by Oscar Wilde

Paperbacks of those we deem classics should be cheap and sold at supermarkets.

— Joseph Brodsky

I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people…

— Pearl S. Buck

Great books are rare.

— Ian Hacking

There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up little room,…

— Samuel Palmer

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap…

— James Russell Lowell

I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.

— Adam Foulds

The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

— George Bernard Shaw

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

— Anonymous

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of…

— Oswald Chambers

My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those…

— Lev Grossman

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

— Charles Bukowski

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson