Quotes About Books Quotes

“Books make the best ersatz friendships.”
― Nenia Campbell, Locked and Loaded

“Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert

“The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented author who crafted each word, the fascinating individuals we meet inside the pages- and the readers we discuss and share the book with when we finish.”
― Donalyn Miller, Reading in the Wild

“...the sixth [eligible lady] perished miserably after returning to me one of my most cherished books with the leaves dog-eared and the binding cracked. For I hold with the greatest philosophers that she who maltreats a book will never make a good wife.”
― Roswell Field, The Romance of an Old Fool

“Billy read the Bible from cover to cover while he was in the suck, every Marine got one on request. He has often regretted it and this is one of those times. The Bible has a story to puncture every equivocation and denial. The Bible – New Testament as well as Old – does not forgive.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“Remember what I said about being in a Dickens novel, only with swears? You know why people read books like that? Because they’re so happy that fucked-up shit isn’t happening to them.”
― Stephen King, Later

“From the third case, she took yet more books, but these were the traveling books that she had brought for her new ward: they were at once sterner and more reassuring that the others. She cared for for these, too- they were books after all, and she would sooner have her own spine broken than manhandle a book - but not with the same devotion, and they were placed in a neat pile on the floor.”
― Wesley Stace, Misfortune

“My every book is a dwelling for my thoughts, memories, discoveries, and ideas.”
― Sahara Sanders, INDIGO DIARIES: A Series of Novels

“Every authentic book is a home for an author’s memories, thoughts, discoveries, and ideas.”
― Sahara Sanders, INDIGO DIARIES: A Series of Novels

“Books are strange. No matter how many times you open it and read it, you still are excited and happy.”
― Cody Schreiner

“That’s why I want to study Russian literature. I want to understand what it is we’re scared of. At a deep level.”
― Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives- or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E Schwab (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue)

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives- or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“She (mom) yelled from upstairs, Those are books that help me to live! Those books are my life!
Get down here! I yelled back. I'm your goddamn life!”
― Miriam Toews , Fight Night