Sudha Murty Quotes

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

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

I was a member of Corstorphine Library in Edinburgh, and every Friday night, my parents took me there to borrow books. I also used to spend nearly all my pocket money on books.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.

I don't reread my books.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

There is no denying the aesthetics of a well-made, well-loved book.

I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them, and it's nice that that is getting attention from the media.

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.

I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your money.

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.