Quotes and Sayings about Books

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

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

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Reading

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Reading

If you don't like to read you haven't found the right book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Reading

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Mirrors

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Reading

Never memorize what you can look up in books.

Albert Einstein

Learning

Jeod: "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life."

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Eragon

I'm sorry, but how can one possibly pay attention to a book with no pictures in it?

Alice In Wonderland

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Reading

One should never underestimate the power of books.

Paul Auster in The Brooklyn Follies

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Stephen King

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Letters Sentences

Of all the worlds that man has created, the one in books is the most impressive.

Heinrich Heine

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

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Poetry Foolishness

'And what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversation?'

Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Roald Dahl

Children & Childhood Reading

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Angel's Game

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Stephen King

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

Stephen King in 11/22/63

Reading

The world is like a book. Those who don't travel read only one page.

Aurelius Augustinus

Traveling World

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

David Gemmell

He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.

Heather Brewer in First Kill

Open Books, Not Legs
Blow Minds, Not Guys

Drake

Intelligence

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Orhan Pamuk (The New Life)

Reading

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

Maurice Sendak

Children & Childhood Writing

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

Jerry Seinfeld

Reading

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Walt Disney

Books are ships which pass through the vast sea of time.

Francis Bacon

Time

A book can take you around the world and back, all you have to do is open it.

Eulalie "Lally" Hicks in Fantastic Beasts - 3: The Secrets of Dumbledore

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

Emma Watson

Memories

Pen, paper and books are the gunpowder of the mind.

Neil Postman

Mind & Apprehension Writing

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

Clive Barker

But books – they’re different. When you watch a film, you’re sort of an outsider looking in. With a book – you’re right there. You are inside. You are the main character.

Alice Oseman - Solitaire

Reading

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Chanakya

Foolishness Mirrors

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

Roald Dahl in Matilda

Ernest Hemingway Joseph Rudyard Kipling Joseph Conrad Imagination Reading

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

Roald Dahl in Matilda

Comforting Reading

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Stephen King

Writing Imagination

Have courage to make use of your books!

Peter Fiebag (Author)

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

Elizabeth Browning

God

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget - we will return.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Reading

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Mark Twain

Knowledge Reading

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Francis Bacon in Essays

"I kind of lost track of time..."
"For two hours?"
Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved."

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Well of Ascension

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Flannery O'Connor

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Madeleine L'Engle

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Laura Bush

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If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.

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Reading

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems

People aren't like numbers. They're more like letters. And those letters want to become stories. And dad said that stories need to be shared.

Oskar Schell in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Angel's Game

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Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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