100+ Best Books Quotes

100+ Best Books Quotes

414 Quotes

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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Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Hilary Mantel

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Horace Mann

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

Isabel Allende

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.

Virginia Woolf

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Virginia Woolf

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

Virginia Woolf

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

Italo Calvino

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

Italo Calvino

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

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

J.K. Rowling

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

J.K. Rowling

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

Jack Canfield

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

Voltaire

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Voltaire

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Voltaire

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

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!

Jan Karon

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Jane Austen

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Jane Austen

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

W. Somerset Maugham

A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

William Styron

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Jane Austen

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

Jane Hamilton

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Jane Smiley

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Jasper Fforde

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Jasper Fforde

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

Jayne Ann Krentz

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

Jean-Paul Sartre

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

Jeanette Winterson

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

Jeanette Winterson

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

Jerry Seinfeld

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

Jhumpa Lahiri

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Jo Walton

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

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

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

John Berry

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

John Green

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

John Green

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

John Green

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