Book Quote by Voltaire

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The…

— Louis Kahn

“He who doesn't see the essence of books shall surely be ruled by those who find and value the real essence of books.”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“...it is when I'm buying books that I encounter the greediest people: the person selling his collection who will push to extract every last…

— Shaun Bythell

[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read…

— Thomas Jefferson

“A monkey is always a monkey," says the proverb, "even if he has birth-tokens of gold." Although you have a book in your hand…

— Lucian of Samosata

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

— Walter Benjamin

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

— Leigh Hunt

We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality.

— Sudha Murty

“Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I feel that…

— Alberto Manguel

The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe…

— Larry Niven

“Books are memory. They remember their contents and pass them on. They keep track of who claims ownership, who they were given by and…

— Eileen Gunn