10 Mighty Quotes about Books

These quotes about books are sure to fuel your desire to read more; as if you needed the encouragement, right! This list includes some of the titians of literature, I'm sure you'll agree.

These quotes may be organised into a Top 10 list, but if you love books at all you'll find it impossible to pick any favourites here. So share, share and share this page some more with your friends!

Top 10 List of Great Book Quotes

1:

"Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

- Henry David Thoreau

2:

"We don't need a list of rights and wrongs,
tables of dos and don'ts:
we need books, time, and silence. 
Thou shalt not is soon forgotten,
but Once upon a time lasts forever."

- Philip Pullman

3:

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip,
involuntarily,
often helplessly,
into another's skin, another's voice,
another's soul."

- Joyce Carol Oates

4:

"It is what you read
when you don't have to
that determines what you will be
when you can't help it."

- Oscar Widle

5:

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life."

- Mark Twain

6:

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."

- Daniel Handler

7:

"Picking five favorite books
is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose."

- Neil Gaiman

8:

"The reading of all good books
is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

- Rene Descartes

9:

"Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow."

- Orhan Pamuk 

10:

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."

- Samuel Johnson

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