7,712 Quotes About Books

After reading a good book, something must change in you! If nothing changed, then you can be sure that you haven't read the book with your soul!

Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.

I who have copied down this story, or more accurately fantasy, do not credit the details of the story, or fantasy. Some things in it are devilish lies, and some are poetical figments; some seem possible and others not; some are for the enjoyment of idiots.

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.

Music and books stir up emotions. They make feelings rise and clatter and wreck, and sometimes that's dangerous. But music can make you rise up and clatter and destroy when you need to, too.

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

You can own a billion books and still be ignorant.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

Worm has a negative sense whereas lover has a positive one. So, a person who enjoys reading should be called a 'book-lover', not a 'bookworm' because a worm destroys the book, but a lover loves, values, cherishes and protects it!