Book Quote by George Orwell

“No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to date, including…

— Evelyn Waugh

“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

There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.

— Patrick Henry

Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have survived World…

— Vicki Myron

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

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

— Irvine Welsh

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.

— Walter Benjamin

“Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's Travels whose…

— James K. Morrow

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

“Yet, when this cherished volume was now placed in my hand—when I turned over its leaves, and sought in its marvellous pictures the charm…

— Charlotte Brontë

I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away.

— Tim O'Reilly