Book Quote by Alberto Manguel

“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”

— Elizabeth Knox

“A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and…

— Lois Lowry

“People who live without books are just living their basic life. They need books to live their life to the fullest”

— Anonymous

“Books are a finer world within our world.”

— Alexander Smith

“I believe that books, like people, come to us at the perfect time, with a purpose to either bring awareness to something we need…

— Lindsay Carricarte-Jones

“In the world of subscribers, own the book.”

— Goitsemang Mvula

“We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.”

— J.R. Rim

“The ultimate function of a book, however, is to be read, not to be looked or picked at.”

— Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Afterword to The Restored Finnegans Wake

“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the…

— Umberto Eco

“I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community.…

— Shannon Celebi

“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility…

— J.R. Miller