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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Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

David Levithan

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

Megan Whalen Turner

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

René Descartes

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

Muriel Barbery

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

Roald Dahl

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

David Mitchell

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Samuel Butler

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

Pseudonymous Bosch

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Benjamin Franklin

Only bad books have good endings.If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

Pseudonymous Bosch

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

Henry David Thoreau

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

Stephen King

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

Henry David Thoreau

It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

Pseudonymous Bosch

A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear.

Ellen Hopkins

Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!'Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together.

James Patterson

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

Wilkie Collins

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

David Quammen

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

Dr. Seuss

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Stephen King

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

Melissa Marr

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

Naomi Novik

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Britney Spears

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

Naomi Shihab Nye

You can never, never have too many books

Drew Barrymore

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

John Berger

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

Patricia A. McKillip

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

Stephen King

If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.

John Berry

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

Cornelia Funke

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

J.K. Rowling

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

Mia James

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

Stephen King

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

Cornelia Funke

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

L.M. Montgomery

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

Karen Marie Moning

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Henry Miller

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