Book Scarcity Quotes

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea.

I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.

When I was in the YA age range myself, I didn't feel like there were a lot of books for me.

Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of religious belief, learning, and wealth. It was cheaper andeasier for people to come to the collection than for the collection, or parts of the collection, to go to thepeople.

I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at a list and see anything that I want, or almost anything, is like a kind of miracle.

When I grew up, my house contained only two books: the Bible and the 'Edmonds' cookbook. We were a working-class household. Books were a poor second to the television, which was always on, usually with me in front of it.

That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.

Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.

I guess from my perspective being a female athlete as well, there's probably not a huge amount of female athlete books out there.

Great books are rare.

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

The problem with being an avid reader in China is that there were few books to be read.

Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions...