Book Exchange Quotes

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

I don't read a lot of books that were published after 1755. One thing about having friends in New York who belong to the literary world, however, is that I have a steady stream of books coming to the house.

I always give books. And I always ask for books. I think you should reward people sexually for getting you books. Don't send a thank-you note, repay them with sexual activity. If the book is rare or by your favorite author or one you didn't know about, reward them with the most perverted sex act you can think of. Otherwise, you can just make out.

I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.

I love book clubs. I just hate reading and talking to people.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

Always, always, always pass a good book along on to somebody else.

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago bookstore. They give me store credit, and then I spend all the store credit, and, presumably, return to sell them back more of the books I bought from them.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

It must be some book," she said as she knelt down next to the bed..."Did that boy give it to you?" She asked out of nowhere. "By 'it' do you mean herpes?" "You are too much," Mom said, "The book, Hazel. I mean the book.

Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper and cheaper until eventually they end up in prison.

I read a lot for me. But I'm not one of those people who gets 'The New York Times' book review and runs out and buys 10 books and is done with them and passing them out to friends, you know, two weeks later.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

I love to both give and receive very old books.

Thanks to the Jolabokaflod, books still matter in Iceland; they get read and talked about. Excitement fills the air. Every reading is crowded; every print run is sold.