Inspiring Quotes

BOOK QUOTES

• “A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”

  Salman Rushdie

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• “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”

  Jhumpa Lahiri

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• “Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”

  Dr Seuss

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

  J.K. Rowling

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• “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

  Cicero

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• “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”

  Jhumpa Lahiri

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• “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

  Christopher Paolini

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

   

  Jane Smiley

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• “Books may well be the only true magic.”

  Alice Hoffman

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

  Sir Francis Bacon

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• “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”

  Stephen King

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• “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

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• “Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”

  Alberto Manguel

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• “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

  Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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• “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”

  C.S. Lewis

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

  Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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• “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”

  Erasmus

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• “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”

  William Styron

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• “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”

  Carl Sagan

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• “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 W. Eliot

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• “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you’ll die of a misprint.”

  Markus Herz

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

  Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

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• “A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”

  George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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• “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

  Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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• “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

  Madeleine L’Engle

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• “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

  Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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• “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, An Abundance of Katherines

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• “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”

  Toni Morrison

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

  Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

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• “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

  Oscar Wilde

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• “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

  Groucho Marx

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• “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

  Ernest Hemingway

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• “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

  Oscar Wilde

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• “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

  C.S. Lewis

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• “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

  Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

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

  Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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• “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

  Jorge Luis Borges

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• “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

  Groucho Marx

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• “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

  Mark Twain

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• “So many books, so little time.”

  Frank Zappa

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• “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

  Mark Twain

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• “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

  Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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• “So many books, so little time.”

  Frank Zappa

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