Book Quote by Stephen Colbert

“Used books,” as if someone else has had the best of them and you get the sere husk, or the lees, as if a…

— Deborah Meyler

“You might have noticed that I have been sending you used books. I have done this not to save money, but to make a…

— Yann Martel

Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a part of…

— Michael Dirda

Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and…

— Herman Melville

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get…

— Richard Bach

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

— Samuel Butler

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read…

— Oscar Wilde

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

— Neil Gaiman

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest…

— Nicholson Baker

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its…

— Amos Bronson Alcott