Book Lover Quotes
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![Alan Bradley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1256021843i/1074866._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
No ... eight days a week.”
― The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
No ... eight days a week.”
― The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
![Carlos Ruiz Zafón](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1601032197i/815._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.”
― The Angel's Game
― The Angel's Game
![Henry Ward Beecher](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198680376i/425221._UX200_CR0,59,200,200_.jpg)
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
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![Oprah Winfrey](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1677767094i/3518._UY200_CR38,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.”
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![Jan Karon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1596307533i/40552._UY200_CR51,0,200,200_.jpg)
“As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Voila! Bookshelves!”
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![E. Lockhart](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1650379335i/173491._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.”
― We Were Liars
― We Were Liars
![Shannon Hale](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1299093233i/49177._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.”
― The Goose Girl
― The Goose Girl
![Helene Hanff](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1263552274i/58918._CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.”
― 84, Charing Cross Road
― 84, Charing Cross Road
![Ray Bradbury](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1445955959i/1630._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.”
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![Henry Ward Beecher](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198680376i/425221._UX200_CR0,59,200,200_.jpg)
“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.”
― Eyes and ears
― Eyes and ears
![Eudora Welty](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1463127348i/7973._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.”
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![Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629693671i/3137322._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .”
― White Nights
― White Nights
![Erica Jong](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1286537368i/6085._UX200_CR0,45,200,200_.jpg)
“Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.”
― Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
― Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
![Neil Gaiman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1234150163i/1221698._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Still. Four words.
And I didn’t realize it until a couple of days ago, when someone wrote in to my blog:
Dear Neil,
If you could choose a quote - either by you or another author - to be inscribed on the wall of a public library children’s area, what would it be?
Thanks!
Lynn
I pondered a bit. I’d said a lot about books and kids’ reading over the years, and other people had said things pithier and wiser than I ever could. And then it hit me, and this is what I wrote:
I’m not sure I’d put a quote up, if it was me, and I had a library wall to deface. I think I’d just remind people of the power of stories, and why they exist in the first place. I’d put up the four words that anyone telling a story wants to hear. The ones that show that it’s working, and that pages will be turned:
“… and then w”
― Stories: All-New Tales
And I didn’t realize it until a couple of days ago, when someone wrote in to my blog:
Dear Neil,
If you could choose a quote - either by you or another author - to be inscribed on the wall of a public library children’s area, what would it be?
Thanks!
Lynn
I pondered a bit. I’d said a lot about books and kids’ reading over the years, and other people had said things pithier and wiser than I ever could. And then it hit me, and this is what I wrote:
I’m not sure I’d put a quote up, if it was me, and I had a library wall to deface. I think I’d just remind people of the power of stories, and why they exist in the first place. I’d put up the four words that anyone telling a story wants to hear. The ones that show that it’s working, and that pages will be turned:
“… and then w”
― Stories: All-New Tales
![Kiersten White](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1664146111i/3027554._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“I wanted more time with the books. I wanted to spend the day in a quiet corner, sitting against a window, lost in words and worlds I had never been given access to.”
― The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
― The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
![Audrey Niffenegger](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1367342548i/498072._UX200_CR0,41,200,200_.jpg)
“I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved”
― The Time Traveler's Wife
― The Time Traveler's Wife
![Allison Hoover Bartlett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1245274237i/2924803._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.”
― The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
― The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
“I always looked for a place where I could sit in solace and read, and you know what offered me that comfortable solitude? Books.”
― In The Name Of Blasphemy
― In The Name Of Blasphemy
![S.T. Gibson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1544033777i/15721114._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of organs.”
― Evocation
― Evocation
“Don't ask why I know so many random facts. The answer is and always will be books.”
― Sun and Moon
― Sun and Moon
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