Book Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

— Carl Sagan

“The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and…

— Philip Pullman

It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read…

— Robert Hass

I think of books as like a life raft. They save us from mundanity, they draw us to a poetic, multi-faceted world. We all…

— Andi Oliver

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

— C. S. Lewis

“Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the…

— Carl Sagan

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

— Ernest Dimnet

I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and…

— Carlos Santana

“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

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

— Anna Quindlen

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

— Anonymous

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day