Books Quotes

Associate with the noblest people you can find, read the best books, live with the mighty, but learn to be happy alone.

~ Saul Bellow

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

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

~ C.s. Lewis

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

~ Margaret Walker

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

~ Louis L'amour

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

~ Maya Angelou

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

~ John Cheever

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

~ Malcolm X

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

~ Philip Pullman

Nobody steals books but your friends.

~ Roger Zelazny

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

~ Neil Gaiman

Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery.

~ David Almond

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

~ Stephen King

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

~ Richard P. Denney

To read is to empower,To empower is to write,To write is to influence,To influence is to change,To change is to live.

~ Jane Evershed

Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

~ Jackson Pearce

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

~ Richard P. Denney

So many books, so little time.

~ Frank Zappa

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

~ Jane Austen

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

~ Groucho Marx

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

~ Groucho Marx

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.

~ Markus Herz

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

~ Bertrand Russell

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

~ Henry Ward Beecher

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

~ Roald Dahl

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

~ Groucho Marx

In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.

~ Rick Riordan

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.

~ Karen Marie Moning

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

~ Terry Pratchett

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

~ Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Sections in the bookstore- Books You Haven't Read- Books You Needn't Read- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them

~ Italo Calvino

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

~ G.k. Chesterton

The covers of this book are too far apart.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Elend: I kind of lost track of time…Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved.

~ Brandon Sanderson

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.

~ Steven Wright

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle