17th century Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.…

— Benjamin Franklin

[People in 1600s] didn't have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back then were…

— Stephen Greenblatt

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

“One generation's pleasure became a burden for another. Hence, entire collections from father to son were sold for a song, and the vendors, knowing…

— Murzban F. Shroff

These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their…

— Terry Pratchett

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

— Ernest Hemingway

My parents were really poor. We never bought books because you could go to the library. It would be stupid to buy one.

— Beth Macy

My parents didn't have much money growing up, but they always had a budget for books.

— Tim Ferriss

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

— Benjamin Franklin

Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

“Dear KDP Author, Just ahead of World War II, there was a radical invention that shook the foundations of book publishing. It was the…

— Amazon Kdp

If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again,…

— Joshua Foer