Updated 22 April 2020 at 20:30 IST
The World Book and Copyright Day is counted amongst the most awaited days of the year. Celebrated on April 23 each annual year, this day holds a lot of significance in the history of world literature. People from different cultural backgrounds, countries and ethnicity come together to commemorate the International Books day, which celebrates reading books.
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Started by UNESCO in 1995, the day marks the contribution of books, authors, publishers, and libraries across the globe. Book-lovers can wish each other Happy World Book Day 2020 by sending some meaningful quotes by their favourite pers, thinkers and authors. Here's a compilation curated especially for you, so pick your favourite quote and send your loved ones. Take a look-
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. - by Jorge Luis Borges
A house without books is like a room without windows. - by Heinrich Mann
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. - by Malala Yousafzai
A room without books is like a body without a soul - by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: This is the ideal life.- by Mark Twain
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Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. - by Mark Haddon
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.- by Lemony Snicket
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it- by Oscar Wilde
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid- by Jane Austen
There is no friend as loyal as a book.- by Ernest Hemingway
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - by Haruki Murakami
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones. – by Stephen King
I was born with a reading list I will never finish-by Maud Casey
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.– by Paul Sweeney
Never judge a movie by its movie- by J.W Eagen
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.”– by J.K. Rowling
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.– by Walt Disney
If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- by Toni Morrison
A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book- by Robert M. Gates
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned– by Saul Bellow
Published 22 April 2020 at 20:30 IST