Advancement Quote by Garth Stein

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

— Katherine Paterson

Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.

— Carl Deuker

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when…

— Richard Scarry

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

— Wislawa Szymborska

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

— Anonymous

We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's…

— Jeanette Winterson

I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.

— Jonathan Lethem

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

— Oscar Wilde

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.

— Richard Scarry

If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.

— Hal Needham

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson