7,712 Quotes About Books

To the one who views from a larger perspective....everything is a blessing.

Books are borrowed minds, and because they capture the soul of a people, they explore and celebrate all it means to be human.

Books were dangerous things filled with uncontrolled words.

Unless you find yourself in a book, you have a hard time finding anybody else.

Papermay burnbut wordswill escape.

What is a course of history or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.

A book not worthy of being read twice is not worthy of being read once.

I read a lot of books. It's such a cliché, I know, the lonely kid and her books, but the day my brother walked into my room and chucked a copy of Harry Potter at my head and said, "I won this at school, looks like something you'd enjoy," was one of the best days of my life.

Read more books than those who have a formal education, developing this into a lifelong habit.