Books Quotes

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

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

~ C.s. Lewis

We live for books.

~ Umberto Eco

What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.

~ Neil Gaiman

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

~ Virginia Woolf

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

~ Anna Quindlen

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

~ Diane Duane

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

~ John Waters

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

~ Orhan Pamuk

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

~ J.k. Rowling

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

~ Jane Austen

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

~ Madeleine L'engle

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

~ Irving Stone

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. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal

~ John Green

I do things like get in a taxi and say, The library, and step on it.

~ David Foster Wallace

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

~ Italo Calvino

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? Mo had said...As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.

~ Cornelia Funke

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

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

~ Christopher Morley

The world was hers for the reading.

~ Betty Smith

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

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

~ Franz Kafka

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

~ Joshua Slocum

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.

~ Alan Bennett

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

~ Annie Dillard

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

~ C.s. Lewis

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

~ Neil Gaiman

A good book is an event in my life.

~ Stendhal

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

~ Alan Bennett

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

~ François Mauriac

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

~ Umberto Eco

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

~ George Orwell

It 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

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

~ Henry Miller

A house without books is like a room without windows.

~ Horace Mann

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

~ Astrid Lindgren

Have you really read all those books in your room?”Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.

~ John Green

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

~ Jo Walton

My library is an archive of longings.

~ Susan Sontag