Book Quote by Ivor A. Richards

“The novel begins in a railway station, a locomotive huffs, steam from a piston covers the opening of the chapter, a cloud of smoke…

— Italo Calvino

“Books because are the vehicle that takes my mind to places and times my body can't go.”

— Jeffrey Michael

“The ultimate function of a book, however, is to be read, not to be looked or picked at.”

— Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Afterword to The Restored Finnegans Wake

“The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.”

— Umberto Eco

“He follows several trains of thought at once, without distraction from any, and one of the trains is always for his own amusement.”

— Thomas Harris

“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.”

— Ray Bradbury

A book is a machine to think with.

— Anonymous

“Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination.”

— Paul Auster

“On those trains you’ll be taking across Europe. A book light always comes in handy.”

— Meg Cabot

“Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.”

— Matt Haig

“A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo