Book Worth Quotes

Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.

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.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.

I don't like it when I see my books sold cheaply.

Sometimes you get the cynical person saying, 'Do we really need another book set in Nazi Germany?' But I think you just have to ask, 'Is this a story worth telling?'

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote a book. It's something real and tangible that sits on a shelf forever.

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

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

When you're making a print book in 2012, I actually think the onus is on you - and on your publisher - to make something that's worth buying in its physical edition.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occasionally, someone like Dickens or George Eliot comes along to prove the opposite.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.