Book Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of book quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
– Alan Bennett

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours”
– Alan Bennett

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.”
– Aldous Huxley

“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“Erudition – dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”
– Anais Nin

“A book without words is like love without a kiss; it’s empty.”
– Andrew Wolfe

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
– Anna Quindlen

“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.”
– Anne Frank

“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.”
– Audrey Hepburn

“He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
– Bertrand Russell

“The world was hers for the reading.”
– Betty Smith

“One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.”
– Beverly Cleary

“Maybe every other American movie shouldn’t be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.”
– Bill Maher

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
– C.S. Lewis

“A children‘s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”
– C.S. Lewis

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
– C.S. Lewis

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
– C.S. Lewis

“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
– Carolyn G. Heilbrun

“One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
– Cassandra Clare

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
– Cassandra Clare

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
– Charles Dickens

“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 good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.”
– Christopher Hitchens

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
– Christopher Morley

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
– Christopher Paolini

“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
– Confucius

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
– Cornelia Funke

“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times?” Mo had said…”As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells…and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower…both strange and familiar.”
– Cornelia Funke

“If you take a book with you on a journey,” Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, “an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it… yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”
– Cornelia Funke

“A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.”
– Daniel J. Boorstin

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