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50 Quotes For Bookish People

 





These quotes will remind you about all the reasons you should start and keep reading books. Engross in the different encounters of readers across the world.



“The world belongs to those who read.” –Rick Holland


“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” –Rene  Descartes


“The more you read books the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go.” –Dr. Seuss


“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog. It’s too dark to read.” –Groucho Marx


“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” George Bernard Shaw


“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” –Garrison  Keillor


“I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.” –Emma Thompson


“My alma mater was books. A good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” –Malcolm  X


“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” –Mary Schmich


“To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.” –Geraldine Brooks


“Take a good book to bed with you- books do not snore” –Thea Dorn


“No. I can survive well enough on my own- if given the proper reading material.” –Sarah  J. Maas


“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.” –Holbrook Jackson


“Read a thousand books, your words will flow like a river.” –Lisa See


“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” –Abraham Lincoln


“Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.” –Henry Stevens


“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!” –Betty Smith


“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” –Joseph Brodsky


“Books should go where they will be appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?” –Christopher Paolini


“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.” –Vera Nazarian


“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers” –President  Harry Truman


“Putting down a good book can almost be an impossible act to do.” –Unknown 


“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are” –Mason  Cooley


“Some books leave us free and some books make us free” –Ralph  Waldo Emerson


“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” –Malorie Blackman


“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” –Sir  Francis Bacon


“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” –Victor Hugo


“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you lost a friend” –Paul Sweeney


“There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.” –Jacqueline Kennedy


“Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” –Jim Rohn


“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” –Napoleon Bonaparte


“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for one thousand years. To read is to voyage through time.” –Carl Sagan


“Classic’ - a book which people praise and doesn’t read.” –Mark Twain


“Many people. Myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” –Jane Smiley


“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” –Mortimer J. Adler


“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” –J.D. Salinger


“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


“Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” –Annie Proulx


“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” –Henry Ward Beecher


“In the end, we’ll all become stories.” –Margaret Atwood


“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


“A word after a word after a word is power.” –Margaret Atwood


“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson


“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have time or the tools to write. Simple as that.” –Stephan King


“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.” –George R.R Martin


“If you don’t see the book tou want on the shelf, write it.” –Beverly Clearly


“Everyone should make reading one of their hobbies.” –Unknown 


“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.” –Ursula K. LeGuin


“I guess there are never enough books” –John Steinbeck


“Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well” –Mark Haddon

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