Animals Quote by Umberto Eco

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects…

— Umberto Eco

“...a book is a delicate friend, a white bird, an exquisite being, afraid of water. Darling things! Afraid of water, of fire, They shiver…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

— Paul Valery

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of…

— Isaac D'Israeli

“I never knew book were important than anything even humans until i discovered that books are straight forward why humans are unstable.”

— Oladeji jeremy

“Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe…

— Gregory Maguire

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

— Geraldine Brooks

“He didn’t remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine,…

— Gregory Maguire

The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.

— Maira Kalman

Every book is vulnerable, and every book is nerve-wracking, but I've never been both so excited and terrified to have a book coming into…

— Nathan Englander

“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.”

— Erika Johansen

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan