Unlock the wisdom and inspiration nestled within the pages of beloved books with our exploration of captivating book quotes.Dive into a treasure trove of timeless words that resonate across generations,offering insights,comfort,and motivation.From classic literature to contemporary bestsellers,discover the power of succinct yet profound book quotes that leave an indelible mark on our hearts and minds.Join us on a journey through literature's most memorable passages,where each quote is a doorway to enlightenment and reflection.
Book Quotes:
1. “Reading brings us unknown friends.” — Honoré de Balzac
3. "There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."— Walt Disney
4. “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”— George Bernard Shaw
5. “A book is a gift you can open again and again.” — Garrison Keillor
6. “Outside of a dog,a book is a man’s best friend.Inside of a dog,it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx
7. “Think before you speak.Read before you think.” — Fran Lebowitz
8. “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” — Mary Schmich
9. “We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming,our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.” — Anna Quindlen
10. “My alma mater was books,a good library….I could spend the rest of my life reading,just satisfying my curiosity.” — Malcolm X
Book Quotes Inspirational:
11. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” — Stephen King
12. “Books and doors are the same thing.You open them,and you go through into another world.” — Jeanette Winterson
13. “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón
14. “A book is a way for your imagination to be wild and free.” — Unknown
15. “Take a good book to bed with you – books do not snore.” — Thea Dorn
16. “A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.” — Lisa Kleypas
17. “I think books are like people,in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.” — Emma Thompson
18. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” — George R.R.Martin
19. "There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away." — Emily Dickinson
20. “No.I can survive well enough on my own – if given the proper reading material.” — Sarah J.Maas
Famous Book Quotes:
21. “When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.”— Chloe Thurlow
22. “The world belongs to those who read.” — Rick Holland
23. “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” — Diane Duane
24. “To know a man’s library is,in some measure,to know a man’s mind.”— Geraldine Brooks
25. “If you don’t like to read,you haven’t found the right book.” — J.K.Rowling
26. “Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.” — Holbrook Jackson
27. “Read a thousand books,and your words will flow like a river.” — Lisa See
28. “Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.” — Walter Moers
29. “A good book is an event in my life.” — Stendhal
30. “Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”— Harold Bloom
Book Quotes About Life:
31. “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” — Rene Descartes
32. “No two persons ever read the same book.” — Edmund Wilson
33. “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” — Abraham Lincoln
34. “The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.” — Isabel Allende
35. “Until I feared I would lose it,I never loved to read.One does not love breathing.” — Harper Lee
36. “A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.” — Walter Mosley
37. “Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.” — Henry Stevens
38. “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges
39. “These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.” — Roald Dahl
40.“’Once upon a time’ is one of the most magical phrases you’ll ever read.”— Unknown
Book Quotes About Love:
41. “Oh,magic hour,when a child first knows she can read printed words!”— Betty Smith
42. “Reading should not be presented to children as a chore,a duty.It should be offered as a gift.” — Kate DiCamillo
43. “Not all readers are leaders,but all leaders are readers.” — President Harry Truman
44. I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.” — Elbert Hubbar
45. “Don’t get into a relationship with someone who doesn’t own any books.”— Unknown
46. “There are worse crimes than burning books.One of them is not reading them.” — Joseph Brodsky
47. “A book is a version of the world.If you do not like it,ignore it; or offer your own version in return.” — Salman Rushdie
48. “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” — Lemony Snicket
49. “Man reading should be man intensely alive.The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.” — Ezra Pound
50. “Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.” — Lena Dunham
Book Quotes Aesthetic:
51. “’The end’ is one of the saddest sentences you’ll ever come across.” — Unknown
52. “Reading is departure and arrival.” — Terri Guillemets
53. “Whenever you read a good book,somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.” — Vera Nazarian
54. “Some books leave us free and some books make us free.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
55. “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” — Mason Cooley
56. “I have always imagined paradise as a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges.
57. “Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real,but they also know that books about unicorns,if they are good books,are true books.” — Ursula K.LeGuin
58. “Books should go where they will be most appreciated,and not sit unread,gathering dust on a forgotten shelf,don’t you agree?” — Christopher Paolini
59. “The world was hers for the reading.” — Betty Smith
60. “Putting down a good book can almost be an impossible act to do.” — Unknown
Book Quotes About Reading:
61. “Some books should be tasted,some devoured,but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” — Sir Francis Bacon
62. “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own,I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” — Jane Austen
63. “You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” — Paul Sweeney.
64. “Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” — Bill Watterson
65. “Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” —Malorie Blackman
66. “If there is a book that you want to read,but it hasn’t been written yet,you must be the one to write it.” — Toni Morrison
67. “Books are good company,in sad times and happy times,for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”— E.B.White
68. “Each book was a world unto itself,and in it I took refuge.” — Alberto Manguel
69. “I love the smell of book ink in the morning.” — Umberto Eco
70. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”— C.S.Lewis
Book Lover Quotes:
71. “A book is a garden,an orchard,a storehouse,a party,a company by the way,a counselor,a multitude of counselors.” — Charles Baudelaire
72. “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”— Victor Hugo
73. “For my whole life,my favorite activity was reading.It’s not the most social pastime.” — Audrey Hepburn
74.“Reading is an active,imaginative act; it takes work.” — Khaled Hosseini
75. “Books are things of fiction that seem like reality.” — Unknown
76. “I always read.You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that.If I stop reading,I die.” —
Patrick Rothfuss
77. “Think of this – that the writer wrote alone,and the reader read alone,and they were alone with each other.” — A.S.Byatt
78. “Once you have read a book you care about,some part of it is always with you.”— Louis L’Amour
79. “You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.” — John Waters
80. “Show me a family of readers,and I will show you the people who move the world.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
Book Quotes For Girls:
81. “Reading – even browsing – an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search.” — James Gleick
82. “Reading makes immigrants of us all.It takes us away from home,but more important,it finds homes for us everywhere.” — Jean Rhys
83. Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.”— Jim Rohn
84. “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.” — Arthur Conan Doyle
85. “What a blessing it is to love books.” — Elizabeth von Arnim
86. “No entertainment is so cheap as reading,nor any pleasure so lasting.” — Mary Wortley Montagu
87. “If you’re looking for some magic in your life,open up a book.” — Unknown
88. “There are many little ways to enlarge your world.Love of books is the best of all.” — Jacqueline Kennedy
89. “A great book should leave you with many experiences,and slightly exhausted at the end.You live several lives while reading.” — William Styron
90. “What kind of life can you have in a house without books?” — Sherman Alexie
Quotes About Reading By Famous Authors:
91. “Books are the plane,and the train,and the road.They are the destination,and the journey.They are home.” — Anna Quindlen
92. “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person,perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years.To read is to voyage through time.” — Carl Sagan
93. “Once you learn to read,you will be forever free.” — Frederick Douglas
94. “Reading… a vacation for the mind…” — Dave Barry
95. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Joseph Addison
96. “It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.” — Donna Tartt
97. “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” — W.Somerset Maugham
98. “‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.” — Mark Twain
99. “Keep reading.It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.” — Lloyd Alexander
100. “Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” — P.J.O’Rourke
Book Quotes From Classical Literature:
101. “Books are the movies of our minds.” — Unknown
102. “Many people,myself among them,feel better at the mere sight of a book.”— Jane Smiley
103. “It’s hard to believe that reading words on pages can truly change your life for the better.” — Unknown
104. “If you stop to think about it,you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters.The letters are always the same,only the arrangement varies.From letters words are formed,from words sentences,from sentences chapters,and from chapters stories.” — Michael Ende
105. “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”— Cassandra Clare
106. “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again,there is no use in reading it at all.” — Oscar Wilde
107. “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 Manguel
108. “Books are the escape you never knew you needed until you start reading.”— Unknown
109. “In the case of good books,the point is not to see how many of them you can get through,but rather how many can get through to you.” — Mortimer J.Adler
110. “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.” — David Mitchell
Funny Book Quotes:
111. “Turning the pages of a good book can influence you more than you might think.” — Unknown
112. “What really knocks me out is a book that,when you’re all done reading it,you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.That doesn’t happen much,though.” — J.D.Salinger
113. “I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.” — Gary Paulse
114. “The cheapest form of adventure is a book.” — Unknown
115. “A good library will never be too neat,or too dusty,because somebody will always be in it,taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.” — Lemony Snicket
116. “When we read a story,we inhabit it.The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story.And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.” — John Berger
117. “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist,but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” — Neil Gaiman
118. “Character,to me,is the life's blood of fiction.” — Donna Tartt
119. “Writing comes from reading,and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” — Annie Proulx
120. “A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” — Neil Gaiman
Motivational Book Quotes:
121. “Has a person who hardly ever reads truly ever lived?” — Unknown
122. “Fill your house with stacks of books,in all the crannies and all the nooks.” — Dr.Seuss
123. “I guess there are never enough books.” — John Steinbeck
124. “Every book is a new adventure.” — Unknown
125. “Do not read,as children do,to amuse yourself,or like the ambitious,for the purpose of instruction.No,read in order to live.” — Gustave Flaubert
126. “Books are not made for furniture,but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” — Henry Ward Beecher
127. “Reading is a conversation.All books talk.But a good book listens as well.”— Mark Haddon
128. “The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp.The reader,reading it,makes it live: a live thing,a story.” — Ursula K.LeGuin
129. “In the end,we’ll all become stories.” — Margaret Atwood
130. “Not reading should be a sin.” — Unknown
Sad Book Quotes:
131. “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” — Anne Herbert
132. “The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.”— Albert Einstein
133. “Stories have endless possibilities and can take you any place your heart dreams of going.” — Unknown
134. “Poetic language is a way of giving the sense of an answer,just a sense of one,that the story itself is unable to provide.” — Emily Ruskovich
135. “Everyone should make reading one of their hobbies.” — Unknown
136. “What isn't said is as important as what is said.” — Colson Whitehead
137. “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
138. “The story is truly finished – and meaning is made – not when the author adds the last period,but when the reader enters.” — Celeste Ng
139. “If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf,write it.” — Beverly Cleary
140. “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” — Austin Phelp
Book Quotes For Children:
141. “Happiness.That’s what books smell like.Happiness.That’s why I always wanted to have a bookshop.What better life than to trade in happiness?” — Saran MacLean
142. “Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.” — Steven Spielberg
143. “That’s the thing about books.They let you travel without moving your feet.”— Jhumpa Lahiri
144. “A word after a word after a word is power.” — Margaret Atwood
145. “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so,they have made me.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
146. “Read,read,read.Read everything — trash,classics,good and bad,and see how they do it.Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master.Read! You’ll absorb it.Then write.If it’s good,you’ll find out.If it’s not,throw it out of the window.” — William Faulkner
147. “Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.” — Jorge Luis Borges
148. “No tears in the writer,no tears in the reader.No surprise in the writer,no surprise in the reader.” — Robert Frost
149. “If you don’t have time to read,you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write.Simple as that.” — Stephen King
150. “Sleep is good,he said,and books are better.” — George R.R.Martin
Best Quotes About Books:
151. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” - George R.R.Martin
152. “Until I feared I would lose it,I never loved to read.One does not love breathing.” - Harper Lee
153. “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” - Lemony Snicket
154. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” - C.S.Lewis
155. “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” - Jim Rohn
156. “I find television very educating.Every time somebody turns on the set,I go into the other room and read a book.” - Groucho Marx
157. “‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.” - Mark Twain
158. “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture.Just get people to stop reading them.” - Ray Bradbury
159. “So please,oh please,we beg,we pray,go throw your TV set away,and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” - Roald Dahl
160. “Think before you speak.Read before you think.” - Fran Lebowitz
Books Quotes That Will Inspire You To Read:
161. “Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.” - Lena Dunham
162. “That’s the thing about books.They let you travel without moving your feet.” - Jhumpa Lahiri
163. “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” - Descartes
164. “In the case of good books,the point is not to see how many of them you can get through,but rather how many can get through to you.” - Mortimer J.Adler
165. “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” - Diane Duane
166. “The more that you read,the more things you will know.The more that you learn,the more places you’ll go.” - Dr.Seuss
167. “Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” - Malorie Blackman
168. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” - Stephen King
169. “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.” - Orhan Pamuk
170. “People say that life is the thing, but prefer reading.” - Logan Pearsall Smith
Leadership Book Quotes:
171. “Today a reader,tomorrow a leader.” - Margaret Fuller
172. “People can lose their lives in libraries.They ought to be warned.” - Saul Bellow
173. “A good book is an event in my life.” - Stendhal
174. “Reading brings us unknown friends” - Honoré de Balzac
175. “The world was hers for the reading.” - Betty Smith
176. “I kept always two books in my pocket,one to read,one to write in.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
177. “The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.” - Benjamin Franklin
178. “Once you have read a book you care about,some part of it is always with you.” - Louis L’Amour
179. “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” - Fernando Pessoa
180. “No.I can survive well enough on my own—if given the proper reading material.” - Sarah J.Maas
Quotes About Book For Kids:
181. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.” - Walt Disney
182. “We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating,far from the vulgar gaze,it is better to let them wear out by being read.” - Jules Verne
183. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” - Cicero
184. “My alma mater was books,a good library….I could spend the rest of my life reading,just satisfying my curiosity.” - Malcolm X
185. “It’s not that I don’t like people.It’s just that when I’m in the company of others – even my nearest and dearest – there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a book.” - Maureen Corrigan
186. “Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” - Arnold Lobel
187. “There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat.” - E.Nesbit
188. “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person,perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years.To read is to voyage through time.” - Carl Sagan
189. “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers,to become comfortable with a book,not daunted.Books shouldn’t be daunting,they should be funny,exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.” - Roald Dahl
190. “Man reading should be man intensely alive.The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.” - Ezra Pound
More Book Quotes:
191. “If we encounter a man of rare intellect,we should ask him what books he reads.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
192. “Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” - P.J.O’Rourke
193. “Many people,myself among them,feel better at the mere sight of a book.” - Jane Smiley
194. “Beware of the person of one book.” - Thomas Aquinas
195. “Read the best books first,or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” - Henry David Thoreau
196. “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” - George Bernard Shaw
197. “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” - Abraham Lincoln
198. “I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.” - C.S.Lewis
199. “You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” - Paul Sweeney
200. “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” - Austin Phelps
As we conclude our journey through the enchanting world of book quotes,we're reminded that these snippets of wisdom are more than mere words on a page—they're windows into the soul of literature.Whether seeking solace,inspiration,or a fresh perspective,book quotes offer a timeless refuge for readers of all ages and backgrounds.Let us continue to embrace the transformative power of these profound passages,allowing them to guide and enrich our lives long after we've closed the covers of our favorite books.
By: QuotidianVerse Team.
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