100+ Best Books Quotes

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Here are some inspirational quotes from Books and also discover the inspiring things that have been said about books and motivating things that have been said about reading by authors, poets, scientists,

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Neil Gaiman

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

Arturo PĂ©rez-Reverte

What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.

Hanya Yanagihara

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

Virginia Woolf

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Neil Gaiman

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.

William Shakespeare

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

George Gissing

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

Andrei Tarkovsky

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

A book is as private and consensual as sex.

Chuck Palahniuk

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Diane Duane

All good books are about everything, abbreviated.

Andrew Smith

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

Diane Setterfield

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

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