Quotes About Books

A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Oscar Wilde

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

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

There is no friend as loyal as a book. Ernest Hemingway

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison

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 William Eliot

Books are a uniquely portable magic. Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones \

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. Francis Bacon

A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty. Andrew Wolfe

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Augustine of Hippo

Think before you speak. Read before you think. Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once. Stephen King

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. Christopher Paolini, Eragon

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. J.K. Rowling

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. Carlos Ruiz Zafn, The Shadow of the Wind

A house without books is like a room without windows. Horace Mann

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. Abraham Lincoln A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.Franz Kafka

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. Abraham Lincoln

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. G.K. Chesterton

Books are the mirrors of the soul. Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom. Thomas Jefferson

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

A book is a gift you can open again and again. Garrison Keillor

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. Anne Herbert

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. Hermann Hesse

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. Isabel Allende

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. Amos Bronson Alcott, Tablets

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home. Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

A good book is an event in my life. Stendhal, The Red and the Black

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. W. Somerset Maugham

Books were safer than other people anyway. Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane