Quotes about Books

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Jane Smiley

A short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Stephen King

No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

Sarah Dessen

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Louisa May Alcott

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf.

Christopher Paolini

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Italo Calvino

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Diane Duane

I guess there are never enough books.

John Steinbeck

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Victor Hugo

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Henry David Thoreau

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

Mary Ann Shaffer

How easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

Cornelia Funke

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Christopher Morley

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn`t have any excuse to be stupid.

Joan Bauer

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Oscar Wilde