#book

Burning books is not as horrible as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#men

Never judge a book by its movie. ↗

— J.W. Eagan

#movie #reading #reading-books #movies

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#illiteracy #reading #money

I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it's my money. And I'll bet you do it too. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#money

But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked. ↗

— Betty Smith

#reading #money

And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them. ↗

— Ross King

#bookshelf #reading #money

In those days, there was no money to buy books. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#memoir #reading #money

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply. ↗

— John Bright

#art

You might have noticed that I have been sending you used books. I have done this not to save money, but to make a point which is that a used book, unlike a used car, hasn't lost any of its initial value. A good story rolls of the lot into the hands of its new reader as smoothly as the day it was written. And there's another reason for these used paperbacks that never cost much even when new; I like the idea of holding a book that someone else has held, of eyes running over lines that have already seen the light of other eyes. That, in one image, is the community of readers, is the communion of literature. ↗

— Yann Martel

#money

They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart. ↗

— David Davis

#christmas #jobs #librarian #library #money