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.

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There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Jack Canfield

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

John Piper

I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.

Colleen Hoover

Literature is news that stays news.

Ezra Pound

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

Shannon Hale

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

Agatha Christie

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

David Baldacci

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

John Ruskin

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

Douglas Adams

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

Garrison Keillor

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.

David Bowie

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Ray Bradbury

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

Shannon Hale

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Tracy Chevalier

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

Anne Herbert

His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

Ray Bradbury

The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper.

Shannon Hale

Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.

John Steinbeck

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

Heinrich Heine

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Ray Bradbury

Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.

Russell Banks

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

Lemony Snicket

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

Gary D. Schmidt

Reading is reading - no matter what the material.

Giovanna Fletcher

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

Ray Bradbury

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

Ruta Sepetys

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

David Foster Wallace

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

Mark Glamack

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.

Al Pacino

Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can.

Gloria Mallette

I guess there are never enough books.

John Steinbeck

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Alain de Botton

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Gary Paulsen

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Gary Paulsen

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Keller

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

Lemony Snicket

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Mae West

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

Mark Helprin

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

Ray Bradbury

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