Quotes are a fantastic way to revisit a favorite moment or passage in a book without reading the full chapter or book again. These lovely quotations for book lovers are perfect if you’re a bookworm.
Books are a fantastic method to broaden our horizons and learn new things. Some of us enjoy reading books as a pastime. After a long day at work, it’s a fantastic way to decompress and relax.
These lovely statements on reading will certainly resonate with you if literature is your absolute passion.
The Best Book Lover Quotes
1. “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” ―Mary McLeod Bethune
2. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ―George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
3. “A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.” ―Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
4. “You can get lost in any library, no matter the size. But the more lost you are, the more things you’ll find.” ―Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen
5. “Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.” ―Ben Okri
6. “I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.” ―Nnedi Okorafor
7. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ―Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
8. “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” ―Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
9. “Books were safer than other people anyway.” ―Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
10. “Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.” ―Adelise M. Cullens
11. “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, A Reading Diary
12. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” ―Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
13. “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” ―Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
14. “When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” ―Jane Austen, Pride, and Prejudice
15. “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” ―Anne Herbert
16. “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.” ―Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
17. “No. I can survive well enough on my own — if given the proper reading material.” ―Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
18. “Once I began to read, I began to exist. I am what I read.” ―Walter Dean Myers, Open a World of Possible
18. “I believe there is power in words, power in asserting our existence, our experience, our lives, through words.” ―Jesmyn Ward, The Fire This Time
19. “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.” ― Saul Bellow
20. “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” ―Jorge Luis Borges
21. “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” ―Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
22. “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” ―Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
23. “Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.” ―David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
24. “I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else’s story, the delicious ache of the last page.” ―Naomi Shihab Nye
25. “Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.” ―Khaled Hosseini
26. “When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.” ―Maya Angelou
27. “In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.” ―Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
28. “I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.” ―Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
29. “A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.” ―Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas
30. “It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.” ―Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
31. “Books were safer than other people anyway.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
32. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ― Cicero
33. “You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I’ve read a book, I don’t feel like I’ve finished anything. So I start a new one.” ―Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul
34. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ― Haruki Murakami
35. “The problem with books is that they end.” ―Caroline Kepnes, You
36. “Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.” ―R.L. Stine
37. “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
38. “You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” ― Paul Sweeney
39. “The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.” ― W. Somerset Maugham
40. “In the end, we’ll all become stories.” ―Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories
41. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ―Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
42. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
43. “The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.” ―Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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