“A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages.” — John Hill Burton Copy Share Image
“I am a passionate reader. New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.” — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Julia could form no opinion of Robert, the bespectacled middle child, for he passed the entire journey with his nose stuck in… — Sheri Cobb South Copy Share Image
All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until… — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
“No serious book lover will ever die having read every book he has managed to collect. This is not a sign of… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
“Book lover n. 1. A person devoted to reading 2. One who would rather stay inside and read than go outside and… — Dictionary Copy Share Image
The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me… — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
“He says he knows someone isn't from the same race as he when that person looks at his library and asks, 'Have… — Jamie S. Rich Copy Share Image
“I didn’t have anyone, but every time I walked through those doors I felt like each of those authors was my family… — J.L. Mac Copy Share Image
“Whatever you call me, my parents encouraged me to go to college and become a book lover, and to trust that I… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image