Book Quote by Umberto Eco

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is…

— Umberto Eco

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

— Umberto Eco

“Like the button, the wheelbarrow, the spoon and the umbrella, the printed book is one of the truly great inventions of mankind - beautifully…

— William Boyd

“Children came running with their mothers' scissors, or the carving knife, or the paternal razor, or anything else that lacked an edge (except, indeed,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“...we find only one tool, neither created nor invented, but perfect: the hand of man.”

— Julio Ramón Ribeyro

The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole…

— Philip Pullman

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers…

— James Gleick

“The book is man's best invention so far.”

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

“A book is more durable than a man.”

— Michael Grumley

“It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon...”

— Chaim Potok

“The only thing better than a good book is a really good book!”

— James McLaughlin

“Books aren't just books they're a completely different world in the palm of your hands”

— Charlotte