Literary Wealth Accumulation

Table of Contents

• Books as Treasures
• Books as Investments
• Books versus Material Wealth
• Books and Personal Value
• Books and Economic Transactions
• Books and Collecting
• Other

Books as Treasures

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

Why would anyone prefer banknotes to books? A little bit of paper with a pathetic quote and a picture of a politician over reams of paper with fantastic stories printed on them?

Books are more to treasure than cars.

The worth of a book is infinite.

Of course you worthless hunk of fur, books are the real treasures of the world.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

Books were not an expense; they were an investment.

I want to speak to you about the treasures hidden in books; and about the way we find them, and the way we lose them.

One might open the book idly, but one never knows what treasures one might find.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

Books as Investments

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

We only pay for what we admire, want and recognize as necessary, even when a cup of coffee is priced at the same value of a book that can change our entire future.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.

...for it happens that books are the only article of property in which I am richer than my neighbors.

All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

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

Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

Books were not an expense; they were an investment.

If you mail a rare stamp it becomes worthless. If you drink a rare bottle of wine, you’re left with some recycling. But if you read a rare book it’s still there, it’s still valuable, and it’s achieved the full measure of it’s being. A book is to read, whether it’s worth five pounds or five thousand pounds.

Books versus Material Wealth

I can lend you my money not my books.

Why would anyone prefer banknotes to books? A little bit of paper with a pathetic quote and a picture of a politician over reams of paper with fantastic stories printed on them?

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.

...for it happens that books are the only article of property in which I am richer than my neighbors.

Books are more to treasure than cars.

Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

Books were not an expense; they were an investment.

Ever since the end of Medieval feudalism, and the writings of John Locke, we have understood the importance of being able to buy and sell one's own property, including books and watches, both for reasons of economics and liberty.

Books and Personal Value

A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.

I am not as valuable as the books, I AM the books! They are a part of me I cannot delete or cut off or ignore! I AM CURRENCY! - Nevel Walker

A Book in the hand is worth two in the bush.

If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life it’s his way, but if all the poor and suffering people raise their hats to you for writing it - that’s different; it makes it worthwhile then.

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.

My bookkeeper is working on those figures now.

If you mail a rare stamp it becomes worthless. If you drink a rare bottle of wine, you’re left with some recycling. But if you read a rare book it’s still there, it’s still valuable, and it’s achieved the full measure of it’s being. A book is to read, whether it’s worth five pounds or five thousand pounds.

Some of the books that provided the richest fare were hidden under unrevealing names, like a rare soul behind a drab face.

No one with seven books in New York City settles for one piece of ass. That’s what you get for a couplet.

Books and Economic Transactions

I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, "Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that?" The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six dollars to put in there. All my journals are private, but if you ever got hold of one of them, you wouldn't have to look very far to discover it is worth more than twenty-six dollars

Now may this little Book a blessing beTo those that love this little Book, and me:And may its Buyer have no cause to say,His money is but lost, or thrown away.

I am selfish — you have already said so— and as a selfish man I think not of what others would do in my situation, but of what I intend doing myself.Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (Kindle Locations 11677-11678).

MARY: Are our readers going to know what the Athena Club is?CATHERINE: They will if they read the first two books! Which they should, and I hope if they are reading this volume and have not read the previous ones, they will go right out and purchase them. Two shillings each, a bargain at the price!

MARY: How in the world are our readers going to know who Miss Jenks is? She was only in the first book.CATHERINE: Then they should go back and read the first book. It’s only two shillings, at bookshops and train stations. I would have mentioned that, but you told me to stop advertising!

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

Eventually, as my books became best-sellers, the nickels pile up and one day I was offered a substantial four-book deal that was lucrative as any airliner hijacking in history. Though writing those four books was hard work, at least I didn't have to wear Kevlar body armor, carry heavy bandoliers of spare ammunition, or work with associates named Mad Dog.

Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.

I can tell you this, if it wasn’t for my book royalties, I’d be in debt.

I mean, I wasn’t stupid. I knew we’d make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

I did the first Parker novel, in which he got caught, and the editor at Pocket Books took me to lunch and said, 'Is there any way that this guy could get away at the end, and you could do three books a year for us?' And I said, 'I think so.'

Books and Collecting

They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart.

And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers.

One generation's pleasure became a burden for another. Hence, entire collections from father to son were sold for a song, and the vendors, knowing nothing about literature, would place a price on the books. (about secondhand literature book)

As book collectors know all too well: We only regret our economies, never our extravagances.

One afternoon he started to talk about his collection of books. Of 3000 books, he found only 30 worth keeping. We were all ready to take notes, expecting Mies to tell us the titles of those 30 books. Mies, instead, with a big smile on his face told us they were important only to him and we must find our own 30 by ourselves.

Idly, I flipped through the ledger's pages, for I cannot resist a book set before me no matter its kind. Writing draws my eye; I am impelled as by sorcery to read even if it is an accountant's list or a solicitor's instructions or, as here, nothing more than a record of travelers who have passed through this inn.

How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

William made his own children sign a checkout slip if they wanted to carry a book.

You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.

Other

Sitting here I glance over my right shoulder at the little row of books, red and green and blue, which stand waiting for my hand, offering their accumulated riches. I think of the years that may be in store for me, and of all the pages I may turn.

Coming between a trader and his book is like coming between a blue-haired old lady and her lucky slot machine: You will be denying them their pursuit of happiness.

Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.

Whether your audience is in a sweaty basement club or nestled in a favourite armchair, good money has been paid, and attention has got to be grabbed if you are not to be heckled off the stage or find your novel discarded in favour of the latest volume of 'Fifty Shades of Whatever.'

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on.

There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing Of old random jottings set down in a blank book You've unearthed from a drawer as you looked for your bank book

One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club.

I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that? The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six dollars to put in there. All my journals are private, but if you ever got hold of one of them, you wouldn't have to look very far to discover it is worth more than twenty-six dollars

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

He shakes his head. “You know all the names to books, but you haven’t read a single one. It’s like it’s raining money, but you refuse to catch a single coin.

When I feel that I’m going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.

One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn’t be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club.

On one side of the ledger are the books man has written, containing sucha a hodgepodge of wisdom and nonsense, truth and falsehood, that if one lived to be as old as Methuselah one couldn’t disentangle the mess; on the other side of the ledger things like toenails, hair, teeth, blood, ovaries, if you will, all incalculable and all written in another kind of ink, in another script, an incomprehensible, undecipherable script.

Instead, I pull out my wallet and hand Mrs. Carnes a twenty, which is the smallest I have, and she counts off the books.

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