"...thus, my impressions are very good... I spent an hour and a half in the Fair looking around... I often wish to read some classics again and then to compare the present impressions with those I had when I read that, long time ago. But, the time does not allow me to do so. However, in spite of being rather busy, I still manage to read many books...".

"Already on the first, superficial sight, one can see the wish to let the Fair be an open window with a double view, with our men's view to the foreign book world and the foreigner's one to the way and development of the book in the literatures of our nations. In addition to the editions in all our nations' and nationalities' languages, there are about 70 exhibitors from 18 countries participating in it... Regarding the Fair, an exhibition to the honor of the 100th anniversary of V. I. Lenin has been organized, under cooperation of experts, then an international exhibition of Slavic editions of our houses and flats...".

"The Book Fair in Belgrade strengthens our unity...".

"When one sees such a book treasure, one regrets not having time to read them all... If the historic destiny of the Balkans' nations was so entangled in the war and peace, why shouldn't they meet each other also through creativity...".

"Look at this huge quantity of secrets around you! I always feel rather sad at the Book Fair than happy: If we would live for hundreds of years, we wouldn't have time to open all these pearl shells of human mind, full fire of the heart and storms of imagination...".

"...There were plenty of them under this roof, all kinds of them. What kind of them will arrive in the following summers and decades – or centuries – nobody knows. One thing is certain: this is the only gypsy tent and the only general fair in our country where among all kinds of visitors there is no place just for one of them, for the category of the poor and humorous people, who, none knows why – ask the dark past about it – still cannot read... A book – a challenge to the wander of illiteracy...".

"...The literature lives nowadays from the late classics and alive readers who are asking a new question now: Can we like a book, rather than how much we respect it or how beautiful it is... Thus, look here, tonight, for a book you will be able to like. You may thereby assist this planet to survive...".

"Such a great number of book fans makes me happy and excited. It is really a rare thing to see and even more pleasant to live to see it and be a writer of such a great reading nation."

"For me, this is not a Fair of Books, but of a book. There are no more books, there is just a single book multiplying into an endless number of titles. But, all of them make the single one again and the more of them there are, the bigger it is. The single one keeps all of them together and it is written in it not only what happened, but also what will happen...".

"May God let us use this great heritage and everything else as a noble, Holy and honorable thing for the well-being of the people...".

"Walking among the fair stands, we are becoming a reality of a total book, in which the opposites of the soul and  body are shown in a spiritual synthesis. The book is a shelter of the spirit, but also a comfort to the soul in front of an uncertainty caused by facing the loss of one's own material support...".

"...The Book Fair is a wonderful central place, where I can meet only the writers I know and see, overview and meet the entire domestic production. Thus, the Book Fair is the most wonderful time for me in Belgrade."