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13 Beautiful And Famous Quotes About Reading Books

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In today’s world, books are often relegated to the sidelines – people often think that they can learn just as much from a blog or an online article. But read on for 13 famous quotes about reading books and see how all these authors still find time in their busy lives to curl up with a good book!

13 Famous Quotes About Reading Books

Here is a list of 13 famous quotes about reading books.

“Books are the carriers of civilization.” – Winston Churchill
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Books are a uniquely portable magic” – Stephen King
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” – Mark Twain
“My best friend is the man who will tell me my faults.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” – Lemony Snicket
“The highest result of education is tolerance.” – Helen Keller
“The average American now reads less than one book a year.” – John S. Wright
“If you do not read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.” – Mark Twain
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.” – Francis Bacon
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” – Mark Twain
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened. – Ernest Hemingway
“The only thing worse than reading fiction is not reading fiction…because the only thing worse than not knowing the truth, is believing a lie.” – St. Jerome

Most Popular Quotes about Books

1. “Give me a book and I will go anywhere with it.”
2. “Books are the carriers of civilization.”
3. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
4. “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
5. “A person who never reads anything but newspapers is better educated than one who only reads books”
6. “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”
7. “All you need to know about life, you learned from literature.”
8. “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” 7. “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
9. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” What famous author said it?
10. “A good book has no ending.”
11. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
12. “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.”
13. “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
14. “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
15. “Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it.”
16. “She believed in the redemptive power of literature to save her from the fate that had befallen her mother.”
17. “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
18. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
19. “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.”
20. “What is the book you are reading, Miss Bennet?”
21. “Do not read in the library.”
22. “Books are like people; some are dull and stupid, others smart and interesting.”
23. “I’ve been an English teacher for a long time, I’ve seen girls weep over books so much they could not see straight.”
24. “Life can sometimes imitate art.”
25. “One of the most useful aspects of a book is that it’s a portable friend.”
26. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
27. “Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
28. “The more I write, the less I feel like only one book has anything to say to me. Some books are beautiful; others are important; still others provide entertainment or comfort, which is not an insignificant thing to provide. But literature is also a conversation, one author talking to another across time.”
29. “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
30. “If you don’t know what your passion is, then you need to find something that ignites your interest and go after it full force.”
31. “Just because I liked it doesn’t mean it was good for me.”

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