Believe Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

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

You would have to be very optimistic to think that any of your books will be among the books that survive in the very…

— James Salter

For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been…

— R. A. Torrey

People keep saying that books will never die out. Well, books may never die out, but hundreds of thousands of individual writers will, and…

— Harlan Ellison

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

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

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

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of…

— Michel Faber

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

— Tahereh Mafi

We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among…

— David Gelernter

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

— Jason Epstein

The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books.

— Jonathan Safran Foer