Best Book Lover Quotes
49 Book Lover quotes by 39 unique authors
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The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
— John Herschel
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More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Words are the only things that last for ever.
— William Hazlitt
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Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.
— Joe Queenan
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The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands…
— Anatole Broyard
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I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.
— Tahereh Mafi
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Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've…
— Jodi Lynn Anderson
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The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in…
— Thorstein Veblen
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Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.
— Christopher Paolini
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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
— Diane Setterfield
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A room without books is like a life without meaning.
— Thomas Jefferson
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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
— John Green
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And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide…
— Nick Hornby
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Books are more real when you read them outside.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
— John Green
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All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been…
— Eugene Field
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I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone…
— Helene Hanff
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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 see them for…
— Helen Oyeyemi
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Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
— Cassandra Clare
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I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more,…
— Rainbow Rowell
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I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad…
— Unknown Author
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I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things…
— Deb Caletti
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It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
— James Gleick
Who Wrote These Book Lover Quotes
39 authors contributed a total of 49 Book Lover Quotes, led by these top contributors: