World Book Day 2016 is Today. The event is commemorated every year on 23 April by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) to promote reading, publishing and copyright.
The internet today has practically replaced the good old books in many ways whether its fiction, reading for pleasure books.IBTimes UK brings you some inspirational quotes by authors and personalities whose words will motivate you to explore the vast world of books.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking –Haruki Murakami
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him –Maya Angelous
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out –J K Rowlin
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read –Gilbert K Chesterton
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it –Oscar Wilde
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book –Marcel Proust
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it –Edward P Morgan
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