Book Value Quotes

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.

Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.

When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

There's no literary merit in my books.

My experience is that books take on a life of their own and create their own energy. I've represented books that have been sold for very little money and gone on to great glory, and I've seen books sold for an enormous amount of money published to very little response.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.

A book is not completed till it's read.

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.

I look at every book as a self-help book.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.