Books Quote by Robin Sloan

“But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert, a river…

— Sofia Samatar

“Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print…

— David Almond

“Give me an atlas over a guidebook any day. There is no more poetic book in the world.”

— Judith Schalansky

“Books are open doors to other dimensions where everything is possible and nothing is forbidden.”

— Danny Tyran

“Books are door-shaped portals carrying me across oceans and centuries, helping me feel less alone.”

— Margarita Engle

“A book is like a trapdoor that leads to a secret attic: You can open it and go inside. And your world is different.”

— Antonio Iturbe

“I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.”

— Hark Herald Sarmiento

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

— Margaret Atwood

“He felt a deep urge to put some order in this chaos. Leaning against a large standing-stone by the wayside, he drew out his…

— Alan McCluskey

“Every book was a door; every page a new place to hide.”

— Drew Magary

“This is a place where books are treasured – books that hold the sweetly magical smell of history; books that crackle when you open…

— Cassia Leo

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

— Franz Kafka