Book Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

— Walter Pater

Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.

— Richard de Bury

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

— Samuel Butler

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

— Walter Benjamin

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

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is…

— Maria Mitchell

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

— Ben Elton

“We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books we inherit from our…

— Cory Doctorow

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

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“They were allowed a little touch at each of the books, but only with their fingertips tonight, literature cannot bear dirty hands; first we'll…

— Halldór Laxness

Books are the carriers of civilization... …Books are humanity in print.

— Barbara Tuchman