I came across a lovely book quote about books the other day. Hence, this blog post! These aren’t just quotes from books; they are quotes about books and reading, whether on the page or off. I hope you find solace and comfort in some of these quotes, as I did.
Quotes about Books - A
“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.”
“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
Quotes about Books - A
“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
“My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.”
“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
“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.”
Quotes about Books - C
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
“It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
Quotes about Books - D
“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
Quotes about Books - E
“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”
“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labelled ‘This could change your life’.”
Quotes about Books - F
“Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
Quotes about Books - G
“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
“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.”
Quotes about Books - H
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
“All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.”
“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”
Quotes about Books - J
“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.”
“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”
“I cannot live without books.”
“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.”
“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
Quotes about Books - K
“Books are a narcotic.”
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
“Too many books. Too few centuries.”
Quotes about Books - L
“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
“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.”
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
Conclusion
As you might be able to tell, this is not the end of the beautiful, witty quotes I found about books and reading. Have I missed any within part 1 that has resonated with you?
There will be a part 2 coming very soon to continue the alphabet!
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