200+ Unforgettable Book Quotes From Beloved Classics

A book is as private and consensual as sex.

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.

The problem with books is that they end.

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

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.

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

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.

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.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

So here is my story, may it bringSome smiles and a tear or so,It happened once upon a time,Far away, and long ago,Outside the night wind keens and wails,Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!