The 30 Best Quotes On Books And Reading

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If you love books and you love to read, you’ll enjoy this selection of quotations.

The 30 Best Quotes On Books And Reading

1. Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. ~Jeanette Winterson
2. 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
3. It’s a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place. ~Cornelia Funke
4. The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more. ~Patricia A. McKillip
5. Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. ~Napoleon Bonaparte
6. Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labelled ‘This could change your life.’ ~Helen Exley
7. Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. ~Lisa See
8. Words weren’t dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you. ~Charles Bukowski
9. Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. ~William Hazlitt
10. A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know about him. ~Walter Mosley
11. We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. ~Philip Pullman
12. Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul. ~Joyce Carol Oates
13. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. ~Anna Quindlen
14. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafón
15. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. ~Anne Lamott
16. A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. ~Maurice Sendak
17. That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. ~Lemony Snicket
19. A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one. ~George R.R. Martin
20. We read to know that we are not alone. ~William Nicholson
21. There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. ~Jeffrey Eugenides
22. 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
23. There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. ~Jacqueline Kennedy
24. Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. ~Julian Barnes
25. I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. ~Desiderius Erasmus
27. There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favourite book. ~Marcel Proust
28. 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
29. Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations. ~Vladimir Nabokov
30. To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. ~William Somerset Maugham

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 by Amanda Patterson

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