"A book, a pencil, a child and a teacher can change the world"

On World Book Day, Telegrafi brings you ten quotes about the value and usefulness of books - for the individual and for society.

Heinrich Mann: "A house without books is like a room without windows."

Ernest Hemingway: "No friend is as faithful as a book."

Mark Haddon: "Reading is conversation. All books talk. But a good book also listens."

Malala Yousafzai: "Let's not forget: a book, a pencil, a child and a teacher can change the world."

Groucho Marx:I find television very educational. Every time someone comes on the screen, I go to the other room and read a book."

Jorde Luis Borges: "I have always envisioned Heaven as a kind of library."

Stephen King: "Books are moving magic."

Haruki Murakami: "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can think what everyone else is thinking."

Anonymous: "Anyone who says they only have one life to live doesn't know how to read a book."

Anonymous: "We lose ourselves in books; we find ourselves in them". /Telegraph/