Book Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Mary Russell Mitford

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

So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan…

— Bernard Cornwell

Books are a finer world within the world.

— Alexander Smith

Maybe it's the readers that make a book global.

— Maaza Mengiste

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

“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

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

A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Guenter Grass,…

— Stephen Kinzer