Book Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful.

— Junot Diaz

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.

— Nick Hornby

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

— Gertrude Atherton

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

— Thomas Carlyle

I love books, they're in my blood.

— Karen Marie Moning

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

— John Green

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves…

— Matt Haig

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

— Samuel Johnson