Books Quote by Anonymous

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may…

— E M Forster

“Book lovers, readers who cherish the feel, smell and look of the printed book are concerned about the demise of the printed book and…

— Daniel Alef

“It needs to be repeated that books are much more than merely vehicles for text. Awareness of the way a book is created, the…

— Roderick Cave & Sara Ayad

“Dispersal was a conscious strategy of the plunderers. Only by destroying these collections could they build up new ones. Many of these libraries were…

— Anders Rydell

“...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and…

— Umberto Eco

“Printed books are dirt cheap, never run out of power and survive drops, spills and being run over. And their file format will still…

— David Pogue

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects…

— Umberto Eco

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs,…

— Louis L'Amour

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

— Ray Bradbury

“...any library, by its very existence, conjures up its forbidden or forgotten double: an invisible but formidable library of the books that, for conventional…

— Alberto Manguel

“Of all books printed, probably not more than half are ever read. Many are embalmed in public libraries; many go into private quarters to…

— Flora Haines Loughead

As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer