Book Quote by Sven Birkerts

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

— Brent Weeks

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

— James Bryce

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do…

— Norman Cousins

What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values'…

— Kelly Gallagher

“It may be that I might have inferred from the pages that life teaches us to diminish the value of what we read, and…

— Marcel Proust

But everything of value about me is in my books.

— V. S. Naipaul

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

— Danny Boyle

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

— John Ruskin

I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food -…

— Shay Mitchell

“It’s kind of sad how much value I was placing in the heaps of books I owned. Obviously it was more than their real…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter…

— Louis L'Amour

The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much…

— Norman Cousins