Quotes about Books

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

Anna Quindlen

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

Louisa May Alcott

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Jerry Seinfeld

The best books (...) are those that tell you what you know already.

George Orwell

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!

Henry David Thoreau

Outside of a dog, a book is a man`s best friend. Inside of a dog it`s too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

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

Bertrand Russell

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

Mary Ann Shaffer

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

Victor Hugo

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way incase I die, before I finish, I know how it ends.

Nora Ephron

Every book has someone who loves it, and some people who don't.

Stephenie Meyer

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

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Oscar Wilde

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Joseph Brodsky