50 Quotes About Books – For ALL Book Lovers!
Looking for the best quotes about books? These 50 epic book quotes will show you what true wisdom is all about.
Hey my friend,
Let’s chat about quotes about books.
The following quotes about books will definitely make you think and expand your mind.
These quotes about books will also give you a different perspective on life.
Let me share with you the very best book quotes.
So without further ado, here are the 50 book quotes – embrace these and enjoy!
QUOTES ABOUT BOOKS
1 – Books are a uniquely portable magic. Stephen King
2 – That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. Jhumpa Lahiri
3 -Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books. Adelise M. Cullens
4 – A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. George R.R. Martin
5 – Once I began to read, I began to exist. I am what I read. Walter Dean Myers
6 – The problem with books is that they end. Caroline Kepnes
7- That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Anthony Trollope
8 – I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve. Montesquieu
9 – Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. Anne Herbert
10 – Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison
QUOTES ABOUT BOOKS
11 – When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. Jane Austen
12 – There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. Mary Ellen Chase
13 – It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. Oscar Wilde
14 – Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
15 – There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. Walt Disney
16 – A room without books is like a body without a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
17- People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. Logan Pearsall Smith
18 – If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads. Francois Mauriac
19 – A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act—and why. Celeste Ng
20 – The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. Malcolm X
QUOTES ABOUT BOOKS
21 – It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else. Catherynne M. Valente
22 – There is no friend as loyal as a book. Ernest Hemingway
23 – In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. Mortimer Adler
24 – The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Rene Descartes
25 – I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else’s story, the delicious ache of a last page. Naomi Shihab Nye
26 – Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. Mark Haddon
27- I am a part of everything I have read. Theodore Roosevelt
28 – If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Haruki Murakami
29 – A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. Madeleine L’Engle
30 – A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. William Styron
QUOTES ABOUT BOOKS
31 – She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. Annie Dillard, The Living
32 – Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities. Ben Okri
33 – I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. Orhan Pamu
34 – There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Ray Bradbury
35 – People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. Saul Bellow
36 – We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. B.F. Skinner
37- I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud. Nnedi Okorafor
38 – Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Barbara W. Tuchman
39 – Some like to believe it’s the book that chooses the person. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
40 – There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place. J.K. Rowling
QUOTES ABOUT BOOKS
41 – I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges
42 – You can get lost in any library, no matter the size. But the more lost you are, the more things you’ll find. Millie Florence
43 – Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Fernando Pessoa
44 – There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. Christopher Morley
45 – If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison
46 – What a blessing it is to love books. Elizabeth von Arnim
47- The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. David Bailey
48 – A well-read woman is a dangerous creature. Lisa Kleypas
49 – The whole world opened to me when I learned to read. Mary McLeod Bethune
50 – Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. Alberto Mangue
BONUS: Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Joseph Addison
BONUS: There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. Irving Stone
Much love,
Frances Vidakovic
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