Quotes about Reading Every Bookworm Will Love
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
-Ernest Hemingway
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
-Oscar Wilde
“Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”
-Jean Craighead George
(My Side of the Mountain)
“So many books, so little time.”
-Frank Zappa
“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
(The Catcher in the Rye)
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”
― Jane Austen
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
– Oscar Wilde
“The books are to remind us what asses and fool we are. They’re Caeser’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, “Remember, Caeser, thou art mortal.” Most of us can’t rush around, talking to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.”
– Ray Bradbury
(Farenheit 451)
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
― René Descartes
“I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”
– Sharon Creech
“It’s amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.”
― Christopher Paolini
(Eragon)
“There are books full of great writing that don’t have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story… don’t be like the book-snobs who won’t do that. Read sometimes for the words–the language. Don’t be like the play-it-safers who won’t do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
― Steven King
“When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.”
― Jean Fritz
“Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”
– EB White
“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book…”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I guess there are never enough books.”
― John Steinbeck
“Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
― R.L. Stine
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka
“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
“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul–BOOKS.”
― Emily Dickinson
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Steven King
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo
(Les Miserables)
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero
“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes. ”
― Agatha Christie
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
― Charles Dickens
“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”
― Cicero
“Generally speaking, books don’t cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch
“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?
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“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years.”
― Carl Sagan
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L’Engle
“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
― Christopher Paolini
(Eragon)
“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
― Lemony Snicket
“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen