America Quote by Harry S. Truman

“When we talk about books…we are talking about our approximate recollections of books… What we preserve of the books we read—whether we take notes…

— Pierre Bayard

“Outside theology and fantastic literature, few can doubt that the main features of our universe are its dearth of meaning and lack of discernible…

— Alberto Manguel

Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

— Luigi Pirandello

Will remain of me thousand words and billion pages, scribbles of thoughts and dark secrets.

— Ophelia Callens

“Sometimes people have too much history together, history of the wrong kind, and people cannot tear pages from the book of their life. Once…

— Ryan David Jahn

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

There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that…

— Quintin Jardine

I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the…

— Elie Wiesel

“The archival document is a tear in the fabric of time, an unplanned glimpse offered into an unexpected event.”

— Arlette Farge

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

As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come…

— Denis Diderot

“Facts that have been forges into history first appear as incoherent text scribbled on aged paper. Only as we examine the whole of that…

— Ron Mayes