Books Read Quotes

Why sleep when there are books to read.

— Tahereh Mafi

“Why buy books when you can read them online”

— Matthew Reilly

“They also serve who only fetch books and read.”

— K. Velk

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

— Robert Burton

Things to know from books to read

— Kip Koehler

“When I was a girl the books I read were by men. ”

— Sharon Doubiago

“You are the books you read!!!”

— Ebimoboere Boleigha

“The books must be read, not seen in a movie.”

— M.Z.Riffi

The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.

— Sven Birkerts

“Because sometimes happily-ever-after existed only in the books I read.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

I don't read books. I read the Daily Express and The Star.

— Tim Sherwood

“They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.”

— Alice Hoffman

Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.

— Edwin Paxton Hood

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

— Nicolas Chamfort

It is not about of how many books you have, it is about of how you read them.

— Anonymous

A lot of the books I read are in Spanish. There's this great author, Garcia Marquez.

— Al Horford

Yet when the books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them

— Walter Farley

On the floor by my bed, there are heaps of books I want to read, books I have to read, and books…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

“Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they…

— E.M. Forster

“The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay…

— Martina Tutková

Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write.…

— Patricia Briggs

A book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books…

— Karl Lagerfeld

Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still…

— Sarah Addison Allen

I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages…

— Markus Zusak

All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this:…

— Jim Rohn

“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I have several books I can read over and over. With fiction, it's 'The Stand' by Stephen King, which is my favorite…

— Corey Taylor

“I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: hours spent in airless classrooms, days home sick from…

— Audrey Niffenegger

There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace.…

— Anais Nin

“Books you have read have already been experienced and their content is inside you, even if you don’t remember. So when deciding…

— Marie Kondō

My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy…

— A. Edward Newton

Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them…

— Anonymous

“In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you…

— Italo Calvino

“We have scanned many of the books housed in our Family Services Resource Room located in Villa Park, IL onto goodreads. This…

— Easter Seals DuPage Fox Valley Region

“But about the drip drip of long-haul, no-end-in-sight solitude, they know nothing. They don't know what it is to construct an entire…

— Zoe Heller

“And I see you have not resisted their lure either.” He motioned toward her books. “Might I look at your selections?” She…

— Jess Michaels

“On Writing: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays 1. A beginning ends what an end begins. 2. The despair of the blank page: it…

— James Richardson

“…the matter was new to me, and I had no material for its treatment. But I got books, read up the facts,…

— Charlotte Brontë

“To narrow natural rights to such neat slogans as "liberty, equality, fraternity" or "life, liberty, property," . . . was to ignore…

— Russell Kirk

“Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of…

— Susan Hill