I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
J. K. Rowling
It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
Paulo Coelho
I am mortified to be told that in the United States of America the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours kindle it at home communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf
My room for books and study, or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular, to see what would happen, was at the end of a hall.
Carl Sandburg
At some point I would like to write a book and other things but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
Alanis Morissette
I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.
Hillary Clinton
Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
Francis Bacon
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
Chuck Palahniuk
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau
One whose knowledge is confined to books, and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge, nor wealth, when the need for them arises.
Chanakya
Books and marriage go ill together.
Moliere
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service, we lay them aside.