April 23 is World Book Day.. This date was chosen by UNESCO to coincide with the anniversary of the death of two great authors in the history of literature such as Shakespeare and Cervantes. April 23 also coincides with the anniversary of the birth or death of other great authors such as Garcilaso de la Vega, Teresa de la Parra, Edgar Neville, Edwin Markham or Maurice Druon and others.

On this special day when we usually hand out books and spend more time than usual thinking about what we read, it never hurts to find a famous quote to accompany our gifts. if you are looking for this is the perfect phrase for world book dayyou’re in luck because today we bring you 25 of which you can choose from.

• “Literature is the art of the word.” Manuel Gayol Fernandez

• “Learning to read is the most important thing that has ever happened to me.” Mario Vargas Llosa

• “Not having your own books is the height of suffering.” Benjamin Franklin

• “To be a writer is to steal life from death.” Alfred Graf

• “Literature is always an expedition to truth.” Franz Kafka​

• “To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.” Emily Dickinson

• “Books are incomparable portable magic.” Stephen King

• “Books are the only place in the house where you can still be calm.” Julio Cortazar
• “The books that the world calls immoral are those that show their own shame.” Oscar Wilde
• “I think part of my love of life comes from my love of books.” Adolfo Bioy Casares

• “There are more treasures in the books than in all the loot on Treasure Island.” Walt Disney ​

• “A book is a gift that can be opened again and again.” Keillor Garrison

• “No matter how great and deep a person’s knowledge is, on the most unexpected day he finds in a book that is least of all worth in his eyes, some phrase that teaches him something that he ignores.” Marian
• “A book is strength, it is courage, it is strength, it is food; torch of thought and spring of love. Ruben Dario Jose de Larra

• “If you don’t like to read, then you haven’t found that book.” J.K. Rowling

• “Where books are burned, people are burned.” Heinrich Hein

• “Reading a good book is an ongoing dialogue in which the book speaks and the soul answers.” André Maurois

• “If you plan to achieve anything in life, you need to read a lot of books.” Roald Dahl

• “Somewhere in the book there is a phrase waiting for us to give meaning to existence.” Miguel de Cervantes

• “To learn to read is to light a fire, every syllable written is a spark.” Victor Hugo​

• “To be alone with a good book is to understand yourself better.” Harold Bloom

• “Reading is the only means through which we involuntarily, often helplessly slip into someone else’s skin, into someone else’s voice, into someone else’s soul.” Joyce Carol Oates

• “Free people will never be able to understand what books mean to those of us who live in lockdown.” Anne Frank

• “Books have value only when they lead to life and are useful to it.” Hermann Hesse

• “You never finish learning to read. Perhaps because you will never finish learning to live. Jorge Luis Borges

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