200+ Unforgettable Book Quotes From Beloved Classics

. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

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.

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

Break the spine of one of my books and I break yours.

Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.

I think a good book is a good book forever.I don't think they get less good because times change.

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.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.