Book Quote by William Drummond

“Do not buy finery or jewels, because books are worth more than they are. Adorn your understanding with their precious ideas, because there is…

— Luisa Capetillo

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

— Margaret Deland

These are heavy books.

— John Proctor

“Our principle is, that books, instead of growing mouldy behind an iron grating, should be worn out under the eyes of many readers.”

— Jules Verne

The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.

— Sven Birkerts

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“Books are living things with blood and bones, and it breaks our heart when people dissect them.”

— Rebecca Wells

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

— Carl Sagan

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

— Geraldine Brooks

“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long…

— H.G. Wells

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures…

— George Bernard Shaw

Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of…

— John Clellon Holmes