Quotes About Books And Reading

Quotes About Books And Reading

“Sometimes a book about other people’s problems is way better than your own.”

― Kelly Harms, The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

"Well-read people are less likely to be evil."
Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

"A good library will never be to neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them."

Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”

― Mark Twain

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

― Oscar Wilde

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot  

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King 

  “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies 

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense  

 “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You 

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane  

“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
― Amanda Cross 

“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.” 
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas 

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

Maryanne Wolf

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
― Charles Baudelaire 

“Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear  

 “A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics 

“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
― Hermann Hesse 

“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”
― Neil Gaiman 


“It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart 

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”
― John Waters, Role Models  

“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
― Proust-M 

  “The problem with books is that they end.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You 

“You're never alone when you're reading a book.”
― Susan Wiggs

 “A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader 

“A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”
― Jorge Luis Borges  

“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
― P. J. O'Rourke

“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”
― Anatole France

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

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