Book Quotes

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

Louis Kahn
- Book
- Light
- Library
I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years - the way the world thinks about economic problems.

John Maynard Keynes

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.

James Laughlin
- Book
If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

William Godwin
- Men
- Book
What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

Astrid Lindgren
- Good
- Thinking
- Long
I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book.

William Ivey Long
- Home
- Book
- Flirting
I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book.

Andy Dunn
- Book
What I have been trying to do in this book is not so much to propose a vision of what, precisely, the next age will be like, but to throw open perspectives, enlarge our sense of possibilities; to begin to ask what it would mean to start thinking on a breadth and with a grandeur appropriate to the times.

David Graeber
- Thinking
- Trying
- Age