7,712 Quotes About Books

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well-stocked library.

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own."[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]

For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.