Literary Wealth Quotes

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.

The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.

And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.