Memorable Book Quotes

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"In the end, we'll all become stories."
Margaret Atwood
"You’re never alone when you’re reading a book."
Susan Wiggs
"Books are a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is unlikely to look out."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."
William Styron
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Maya Angelou
"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."
Roald Dahl
"Books may well be the only true magic."
Alice Hoffman
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"I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx
"You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book."
Dr. Seuss
"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."
Marcel Proust
"We read to know we are not alone."
C.S. Lewis
"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."
Harold Kushner
"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
"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."
Alan Bennett
"Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body."
Joseph Addison
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies... The man who never reads lives only one."
George R.R. Martin
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
Frederick Douglass
"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul."
Anne Lamott
"There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away."
Emily Dickinson
"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back."
John Green
"I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage."
Roald Dahl
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"Books are a treasure — a storehouse of accumulated wisdom from the ages."
Barbara W. Tuchman
"One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."
Cassandra Clare
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
Ray Bradbury
"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."
Maya Angelou
"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand."
Neil Gaiman
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
Mark Twain
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
Charles William Eliot
"A book is a gift you can open again and again."
Garrison Keillor
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."
Henry David Thoreau
"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries."
Descartes
"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
Virginia Woolf
"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."
Salman Rushdie
"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."
Mason Cooley
"Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world."
Walter Pater
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"The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library."
Albert Einstein
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."
Mark Twain
"Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere."
Mary Schmich
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends."
Charles William Eliot
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
Haruki Murakami
"Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood."
John Green
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."
Dr. Seuss
"A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."
Neil Gaima
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
René Descartes
"The book you don’t read won’t help."
Jim Rohn
"Books are the training weights of the mind."
Epictetus
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
Oscar Wilde
"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."
George Orwell
"Books are a hardbound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books."
Karl Lagerfeld
"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."
Anna Quindlen
"The person who never reads lives only one life. The reader lives a thousand."
George R.R. Martin
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
Dr. Seuss
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one."
George R.R. Martin
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
C.S. Lewis
"The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library."
Albert Einstein
"I cannot live without books."
Thomas Jefferson
"Books are a uniquely portable magic."
Stephen King
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
Ernest Hemingway
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Joseph Addison
"So many books, so little time."
Frank Zappa
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
Jane Austen
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
Mark Twain
"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
Jane Austen
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx
"Book lovers never go to bed alone."
Unknown
"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.'"
Helen Exley
"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."
Mark Haddon
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!"
Jane Austen
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
Joseph Brodsky
"Reading one book is like eating one potato chip."
Diane Duane
"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."
Austin Phelps
"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."
Mortimer J. Adler
"The world was hers for the reading."
Betty Smith
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
Jorge Luis Borges
"A well-read woman is a dangerous creature."
Lisa Kleypas
"That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."
Jhumpa Lahiri
"If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book."
J.K. Rowling
"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary."
Jim Rohn
"Never judge a book by its movie."
J.W. Eagan
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."
Charles Baudelaire
"Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long life if I read them."
Arnold Lobel
"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
"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."
Mary Wortley Montagu
"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
Francis Bacon
"Sleep is good, he said, and books are better."
George R.R. Martin
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