BOOK T QUOTES

“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

“We read to know we’re not alone.” – William Nicholson, Shadowlands

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.” – Neil Gaiman

“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!

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

“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.” – Edward P. Morgan

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges

“I can never enjoy a book unless I can smell the ink.” – Lewis Carroll, The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.” – Roberto Bolaño FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT AUNTS

“The person, be it a gentleman or a lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” – Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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

“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.” – Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

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

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“The world was hers for the reading.” – Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at people.” – Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“A book, too, can be a star, explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.” – Madeleine L’Engle

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

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” – Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” – Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel