Book Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever…

— Peter York

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

— Ernest Hemingway

“What we face is not a loss of books but the loss of a world. As in Alexandria after Aristotle’s time, or the universities…

— Matthew Battles

Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of religious belief,…

— Tom Peters

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may…

— E M Forster

Literate households in the 17th century would have had the Bible, John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress," and a couple of other books. Shakespeare plays…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married…

— Elizabeth McCracken

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

— Sol LeWitt

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

— Patricia A. McKillip

“all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter—they wanted books for their children.”

— Will Schwalbe

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

— Nate Silver

Books were in the world; the world was in books.

— Lewis Buzbee