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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Gaston Bachelard

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

John Updike

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

Alain de Botton

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.

Mortimer J. Adler

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

Anne Sexton

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

Alan Bennett

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Alan Bennett

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Alan Bennett

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.

Elizabeth Hardwick

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

Isabel Allende

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

John Waters

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

Elizabeth Kostova

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

John Waters

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

Colum McCann

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

Elizabeth Kostova

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

John Waters

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

Elizabeth Kostova

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

Terry Pratchett

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Annie Dillard

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Lemony Snicket

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

Maggie Stiefvater

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

Nicholson Baker

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

Italo Calvino

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

P.J. O'Rourke

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.

Elizabeth Scott

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!

Brian Jacques

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Italo Calvino

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

Charles Ogden

I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….

Sharon Creech

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

Umberto Eco

I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.

Helene Hanff

She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.

Joe Hill

As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.

Maggie Stiefvater

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

Umberto Eco

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

Charles William Eliot

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

Umberto Eco

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Confucius

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

Roald Dahl

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