Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. — Jean de La Bruyere
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. — Henry David Thoreau
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated. — Henry David Thoreau
What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles — Murray Gell-Mann
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (fortunately) everybody drinks water. — Mark Twain
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have. — Seneca the Younger
The way to write a book is the application of the seat of one’s pants to the seat of one’s chair. — J. B. Priestley
I don’t care whether a book is a first edition or not. I’m not a bibliophile in that word’s natural sense. — Norman MacCaig
The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is — Theodore Isaac Rubin
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. — Thomas Wolfe
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. — Norman Cousins
To me a book is a message from the Gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. — Aleister Crowley
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? great books are not in everybody’s reach; — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. — Samuel Butler
This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. — Sally Schneider
Generally a chef’s book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work. — Sally Schneider
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. — Salman Rushdie
I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, gandhi. I just read his quotes — Nafisa Joseph
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. — Barbara W. Tuchman
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. — Henry Miller
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. — Walter Bagehot
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. — Francis Bacon
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. — John Ruskin
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. — Mark Twain
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul. — Aldous Huxley