Book Investment Quotes

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.

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.

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 don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

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

A book worth reading is worth buying.

I think that if you really love a book, there's nothing nicer than to have a first edition of it.

Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book