Afar Quote by Ben Elton

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and…

— John Darnielle

To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves…

— Matt Haig

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay…

— Markus Zusak

Books are doors to another world.

— Anonymous

A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don't know what you're going to find.

— Emily Rodda

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

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

— Frederick Philip Grove

Books can take you places.

— Sandra Boynton

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

— Jane Hamilton