Buying Books Quotes

“I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them.
- Florence Day”
― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

“My depth of purse is not so great
Nor yet my bibliophilic greed,
That merely buying doth elate:
The books I buy I like to read:
Still e'en when dawdling in a mead,
Beneath a cloudless summer sky,
By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed,
The books I read — I like to buy.”
― A. Edward Newton, The Amenities of Book Collecting and Kindred Affections

“I still think that going in on that Friday afternoon and spending that money was one of the happiest experiences of my life.”
― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

“I spent all the money I had, to get the sacred books of my life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard”
― Mala Naidoo

“I drive my husband crazy because I don’t browse books—I buy books. And he’s always giving me these ultimatums like, ‘If you don’t finish all the books you’ve bought, you’re not allowed to buy more.”
― Bryce Dallas Howard

“I do have an interest in this book, which is for sale. (If you have bought it, dear reader, I thank you. If you have borrowed it, I honor your frugality. If you have stolen it, may it add to your confusion.)”
― Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays

“Once again she had spent all her monthly savings on books! She was a true bookworm, not a promising feature at all given that it had zero value in the eyes of a boy.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“Buying a book is not enough, you must read it.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Buying a book is not enough... You must absorb the knowledge it contains. Your personalized knowledge is not what's on your shelf, but how much you put into yourself!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Seeing her books reassured her, made her feel calm. She'd read most of them, but there were a many waiting to be read, which gave her a sense of excitement, and conjured up one of her favourite Japanese words - tsundoku - a word that required a sentence in English: buying books and piling them up on a shelf without reading them.”
― Nick Bradley, El gato y la ciudad