100+ Best Books Quotes

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,

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The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

George Orwell

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

George R.R. Martin

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

P.J. O'Rourke

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

Patricia A. McKillip

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

Paxton Hood

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

George R.R. Martin

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

George R.R. Martin

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

George Steiner

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

George W. Bush

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

Geraldine Brooks

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ray Bradbury

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

Ray Bradbury

Reading is reading - no matter what the material.

Giovanna Fletcher

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

Günter Grass

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Gustave Flaubert

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Guy de Maupassant

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

H.P. Lovecraft

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

Russell Banks

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

Seanan McGuire

Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Seneca

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

Hanya Yanagihara

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

Harold Bloom

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

Haruki Murakami

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

Heinrich Heine

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

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

Sharon Creech

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Simon Van Booy

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

Simone de Beauvoir

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

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Henry David Thoreau

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Henry Miller

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

Stéphane Mallarmé

No furniture is so charming as books.

Sydney Smith

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

Victor Hugo

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.

Henry Miller

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

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