“If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, — and that is a book honestly come by.”

“I don't want no better book than what your face is.”

Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“The book's always better than the movie.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

“I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.”

Irving Stone book Lust for Life

“Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.”

Nick Hornby book The Polysyllabic Spree

“books—there is a good kind of a book and a bad kind of a book. I am not to assume that you are all ill acquainted with this; but I may remind you that it is a very important consideration at present. It casts aside altogether the idea that people have that if they are reading any book—that if an ignorant man is reading any book, he is doing rather better than nothing at all.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.”

Holbrook Jackson (1874–1948) British journalist