Best Book Lover Quotes

49 Book Lover quotes by 39 unique authors

The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. — John Herschel
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
Words are the only things that last for ever. — William Hazlitt
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind. — Joe Queenan
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
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. — Tahereh Mafi
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
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
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. — Christopher Paolini
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
Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover. — Diane Setterfield
A room without books is like a life without meaning. — Thomas Jefferson
When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books. — John Green
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
Books are more real when you read them outside. — Maggie Stiefvater
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. — John Green
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
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
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
Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. — Cassandra Clare
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
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
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
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

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