Book Lovers Quotes

Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All the great treasures of life are hidden in a book.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We live for books.

~ Umberto Eco

Books were safer than other people anyway.

~ Neil Gaiman

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

~ Patricia A. Mckillip

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

~ Anne Herbert

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the

~ Gail Carriger

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

~ Simon Van Booy

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

~ Dorothy Parker

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I am not afraid of giving bad reviews. If I don't like a book, I don't like it. Period. I don't do promotion

~ Bookvergent

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

~ Eugene Field

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

In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.

~ Rachel Hall

They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?''It was books, admitted Miss Minton.And Maia said, 'Good.

~ Eva Ibbotson

I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are just as individual.

~ Susan Lendroth

Books, I think, are what magic smells like.

~ Millie Florence

There are many books, but One holy book, the HOLY BIBLE.

~ Lailah Gifty

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

~ Joyce Rachelle

In the books I find the thrum of everything unsayable. The characters weep the way I want to, love the way I want to, cry, die, beat their breasts, and bray with life.

~ Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!

~ Avijeet Das

Books should not be loved selfishly. Neither books nor anything else, in fact.

~ Marie-Sabine Roger

For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period.

~ Anurag Shourie

over the decadesher books becamesuch a part of herthatthe ink somehow escapedher veins & bloomedher favorite words & imagesonto her skin.nowthe worldwould have no doubt:she was thepageboundgirl- page to skin

~ Amanda Lovelace

When I read books, it is like I have met the sacred souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

~ Saul Bellow

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

~ Virginia Woolf

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

~ Anthony Trollope

It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

What a blessing it is to love books.

~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.

~ Douglas William Jerrold

If you read, you shall renew your mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The synopsis looked good, the cover looked nice, you opened the book and began a new life. You found a new home, you met some new friends, you kept on reading, hoping it ould never end. You danced through the pages, you sang out the words you felt all their joy, and all their pain and hurt. The pages cut your fingers, and the words cut your heart, like the author had a knife, and was tearing your soul apart. You laughed with the characters, and with them, you cried, you fell in love with them, too but with them, you died, and when the book reached its end, and your broken heart couldn't heal, you suddenly realized that its not real.

~ Anonymous

I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

How can I survive without a book to read?

~ David Hill

Dare to read.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The joy of reading is sacred pleasure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.Even when you're the one writing it.

~ Julie Wright

Greatest companion is found in reading great books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita