Anthony McCarten Quotes

May books spread the world over!

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of us. Without books, civilisation falls into the dark ages.

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Books do furnish a room.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

Reading is a huge part of life.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.

Books always help.