Quotes About Books

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels.

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.

We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading.

Good books do not waste our time as most people do... collect a great quantity of books, build alibrary worthy of your noble soul, andspend without stint all the money necessary for it.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book.

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.

(mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air.

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

My mother insisted that her children read.

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.