Being Quote by Anthony Doerr

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One…

— Carl Sagan

Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to,…

— Fran Lebowitz

Books come from trees and flipping the pages sounds like wind through leaves

— CJoybell C

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

— Jackie French

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that…

— Fran Lebowitz

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

— Frances McDormand

We don't simply read books. We become them.

— Anatole Broyard

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

— James Gleick

Books build a stairway to your imagination, that one day may become a Reality, with knowledge obtained through books.

— Andrew Guzaldo