Books Quote by William Boyd

“the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved”

— Umberto Eco

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

— 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

“Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.”

— Anonymous

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

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One…

— Carl Sagan

“From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and the entire…

— John Updike

“I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical…

— Joyce Rachelle

“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and…

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Siri Hustvedt

“There was nothing like the smell of books, particularly old books—that magical combination of oaky aged paper, the rich robustness of leather, the silkiness…

— H.Y. Hanna

“In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.”

— Rachel Hall