Becomes Quote by William Boyd

As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike.…

— Lawrence Lessig

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

— William Goldman

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

— Mary Oliver

Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out of print",…

— Kate Grenville

“Ideally, art would give us the answers that other people don't. This might even be one of the main points of literature: to tell…

— Alain de Botton

I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to…

— Helen Simonson

“His most important books are his two Logics, and these must be understood if the reasons for his views on other subjects are to…

— Bertrand Russell

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious…

— Karl Marlantes

“Books are important, and so serious intellectual attention to them is important. While promplty published scholarly articles are also important, the book format remains…

— Jeffrey C. Issac Editor-in-Chief Perspectives on Politics 12 2013

I think Bob Woodward's books are important books.

— Michael Wolff

“Derek wrote a book called Reasons and Persons, which Will considers one of the most important books written in the 20th century.”

— Timothy Ferriss

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious…

— Karl Marlantes