Quotes about books

I’m going to go do this crazy thing. I’m going to start this company selling books online.

Jeff Bezos

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

Dolly Parton

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

Jane Austen

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

George Orwell

For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.

John Steinbeck

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

John Steinbeck

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

Ray Bradbury

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.

Jeff Bezos

I am grateful for the 30 years of my work and the way it has influenced humanity, especially all the books that became international bestsellers and were translated into 37 different languages, which means they have gone all around the world.

Don Miguel Ruiz