Book Quote by Sophie Dahl

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

— Norman MacCaig

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

— Josephine Tey

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

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

— Salman Rushdie

I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

— Mac Barnett

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

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

— Alice Hoffman

I don't read my own books, but sometimes if there is a new edition I open it and then I feel this life of…

— Peter Handke

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

When you start off with your first book, people assume that you're like all the characters in the book - and it does complicate…

— Irvine Welsh

Most of the stats say that 90% of people who buy a book or check one out of a library would never get past…

— Larry Winget

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.

— Mary Roach