Book Quote by Jules Renard

If you want to be happy, then it is within your grasp. The book you are holding can have a profound impact on your…

— Willie Jolley

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need…

— Selma Lagerlöf

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

— Dean Koontz

Books are like my one and only joy.

— John Lydon

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to…

— Katherine Mansfield

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help…

— Félix J. Palma

Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which…

— Pat Conroy

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure…

— Myrtle Reed

I am happy because I am no longer an author.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier

— Kathleen Norris

“Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it occurred to…

— Francine Prose

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

— Alice Hoffman