Quotes about Books

Consider the phenomenon of reading, that most mysterious of acts. It is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another`s skin; another`s voice; another`s soul.

Joyce Carol Oates

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Joseph Brodsky

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Joseph Addison

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Virginia Woolf

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Oscar Wilde

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

Lemony Snicket

Good books don`t give up all their secrets at once.

Stephen King

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Mark Twain

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero