Book Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

— Walter Bagehot

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

— Walter Bagehot

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel,…

— D. H. Lawrence

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

— Terri Windling

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their…

— Sylvia Day

The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.

— Sam Jaeger

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.…

— Anthony Powell

It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto others looking…

— Jodi Picoult

“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

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the…

— J. K. Rowling

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

— Mary Russell Mitford