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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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Stephen King

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

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Amos Bronson Alcott

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

Dean Koontz

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

Jonathan Safran Foer

Classic? - a book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

L.M. Montgomery

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.

Noam Chomsky

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

E. Lockhart

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

Richard Flanagan

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

China Miéville

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

Amy Plum

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

James Russell Lowell

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.

Terry Pratchett

Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Patrick Ness

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

Richard Paul Evans

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

Victor Hugo

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Malcolm X

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

Mark Twain

My library is an archive of longings.

Susan Sontag

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

Susan Wiggs

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

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

Mark Z. Danielewski

The world was hers for the reading.

Betty Smith

The world is dark, and light is precious.Come closer, dear reader.You must trust me.I am telling you a story.

Kate DiCamillo

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

Markus Zusak

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.

Michael Crichton

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

Betty MacDonald

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

Günter Grass

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Jorge Luis Borges

As always, one of her books was next to her.

Markus Zusak

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

Emily Dickinson

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

Jane Austen

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

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

Gustave Flaubert

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

Jerry Seinfeld

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

Markus Zusak

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul.

Emily Dickinson

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Jorge Luis Borges

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