Book Quote by Pearl S. Buck

I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books,

— Eddy Cue

You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I…

— Bob Hope

Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

— Fran Lebowitz

Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from…

— Jim Rohn

I think that if you really love a book, there's nothing nicer than to have a first edition of it.

— Sophie Dahl

The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book…

— John Ruskin

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

— Oscar Wilde

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

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

— Mark Twain

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A…

— David Quammen

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

— Chris Ware