Barbara Tuchman Book Quotations

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.

Books are the carriers of civilization... .....Books are humanity in print.

Books are humanity in print.