When Books Are Burned Quotes

#1. A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive.

John Steinbeck

#2. Once I had opened a book and read its pages, those characters could never be taken away from me. Even if the books were burned, they would still live on in my mind.

Jennifer Wilson

#3. Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan's library just burned down. Both books were destroyed. But the real horror: He hadn't finished coloring either one of them.

Gore Vidal

#4. I didn't like seeing books damaged. I'd seen enough burned-out schoolhouses and libraries in my first life.

Andrew Smith

#5. My books, at any rate, deserved to be burned.

Alfred Doblin

#6. It followed then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human, for in the long sum of history they are one and the same flesh.

Ray Bradbury

#7. You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because they only germinate after fire, and sometimes the burned landscape blooms most lavishly.

Rebecca Solnit

#8. I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed --
and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

John Dawkins

#9. I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy.

Bauvard

#10. There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

Ray Bradbury

#11. Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

Heinrich Heine

#12. Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Heinrich Heine

#13. I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

Marina Abramovic

#14. Julius Caesar burned down a library?" I asked. "Fucker.

Rose Christo

#15. I am Envy ... I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Christopher Marlowe

#16. Everything is a burned book, my dear maestro. Music, the tenth dimension, the fourth dimension, cradles, the production of bullets and rifles, Westerns: all burned books.

Roberto Bolano