Quotes about books

What’s the point of having a library full of books you’ve already read?

Ray Bradbury

Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can’t read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.

Jesse Jackson

Because of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being written.

Kevin Hart

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Harry S. Truman

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

Virginia Woolf

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

Ernest Hemingway

You can learn investing by reading books.

Bill Ackman

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

C. S. Lewis

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It’s not my business whether people like or dislike it.

Paulo Coelho

I’m a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

William E. Vaughan