“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
PinBooks 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. EliotPinYou 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 SweeneyPin‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read. – Mark TwainPinLet us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. – Malala YousafzaiPinSleep is good, he said, and books are better. – George R.R. MartinPinThat’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. – Jhumpa LahiriPinThe more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. SeussPinMaybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. – Alberto ManguelPinIf you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. – J.K. Rowling
16 Enlightening Quotes About Books That Will Inspire You To Read
“I love books. I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas. 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
PinTake a good book to bed with you—books do not snore. – Thea DornPinA reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. – George R.R. Martin
“Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read. Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself. They have allowed me to remember. They have allowed me to forget. They have allowed me to imagine different endings and better possible worlds.”
Roxane Gay
PinBooks were my pass to personal freedom. – Oprah WinfreyPinMany people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. – Jane Smiley
“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
Anne Lamott
PinBooks 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. WhitePinBooks are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. – Anna QuindlenPinHappiness. That’s what books smells like. Happiness. That’s why I always wanted to have a book shop. What better life than to trade in happiness? – Sarah MacLeanPinAn hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise. – Thomas WhartonPinKeep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures anyone can have. – Lloyd AlexanderPinRainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book. – Bill PattersonPinThere is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. – Walt DisneyPinA great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. – William StyronPinReading brings us unknown friends. – Honore de Balzac
17 Wise Quotes About Books and Reading
PinIf you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. – Haruki MurakamiPinReading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while. – Malorie BlackmanPinWe read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind. – Anna QuindlenPinShe read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. – Annie DillardPinShow me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. – Napoleon BonapartePinReading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. – Mark HaddonPinRead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. – Henry David ThoreauPinYou don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. – Ray BradburyPinReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. – Joseph AddisonPinA room without books is like a body without a soul. – CiceroPinReading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. – Mason CooleyPinIt is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. – Donna TarttPinThe story is truly finished — and meaning is made — not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters. – Celeste NgPinIf 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 MorrisonPinIf you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads. – Francois MauriacPinReading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. – Jean RhysPinI cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 Quotes About Books and Love
PinA first book has some of the sweetness of a first love. – Robert Aris WillmottPinA half-read book is a half-finished love affair. – David Mitchell
2 Quotes About Books and Imagination
PinI have always imagined paradise will be a kind of library. – Jorge Luis BorgesPinI am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. – Tahereh Mafi
2 Quotes About Old and New Books
PinThe worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. – Joseph JoubertPinIt is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. – C.S. Lewis
6 Quotes About Books For Kids
“I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again — if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.”
Marilynne Robinson
PinFairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. – Neil GaimanPinChildren 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. Le Guin
“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
PinA children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. – C.S. LewisPinReading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. – Kate DiCamillo
2 Quotes About Books and Magic
PinI do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book. – J.K. RowlingPinBooks are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King
6 Quotes About Books and Libraries
“Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
PinMy alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. – Malcolm XPinThe library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. – Isabel AllendePinShe sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people. – Catherynne M. ValentePinThe only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library. – Albert EinsteinPinLibraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. – Anne Herbert
5 Quotes About Books in Houses
“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.”
David Quammen
PinBooks always make a room better. – Tanya BotejuPinFill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks. – Dr. SeussPinBooks are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. – Henry Ward BeecherPinBooks should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree? – Christopher Paolini
6 Funny Quotes About Books
“I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That’s right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that’s kind of perverted or maybe it’s just romantic and highly intelligent.”
Sherman Alexie
PinWhen I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes. – ErasmusPinI find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. – Groucho Marx
“Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.”
Nick Hornby
PinReading one book is like eating one potato chip. – Diane DuanePinUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – Harper Lee
16 Quotes About Books That Will Make You Think
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
PinThe reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. – Rene DescartesPinOne 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 SaganPinI think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them. – Emma ThompsonPinBooks are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. – Carlos Ruiz ZafónPinNo man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. – Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPinThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. – Oscar WildePinA book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. – Charles BaudelairePinA book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. – Salman RushdiePinNo two persons ever read the same book. – Edmund WilsonPinThe world was hers for the reading. – Betty SmithPinYou can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. – C.S. LewisPinI owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. – Gary PaulsenPinA book is a dream that you hold in your hand. – Neil GaimanPinThe best books… are those that tell you what you know already. – George OrwellPinI guess there are never enough books. – John Steinbeck
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