Book Quotes And Sayings

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“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.”
– Groucho Marx

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
– Gustave Flaubert

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
– Haruki Murakami

“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

“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
– Horace Mann

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
– J.D. Salinger

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
– J.K. Rowling

“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

“One can never have enough socks,” said Dumbledore. “Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”
– J.K. Rowling

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”
– James Baldwin

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
– 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

“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. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
– Jeanette Winterson

“You might be a redneck if… the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.”
– Jeff Foxworthy

“If a book about failures doesn’t sell, is it a success?”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.”
– Jim Rohn

“The book you don’t read won’t help.”
– Jim Rohn

“Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.”
– Joe Frazier

“I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

“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

“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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