Quotables: Quotes About Books

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

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

Books are a uniquely portable magic. 

– Stephen King

"I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book."

– Groucho Marx

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” 

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” 

― Charles William Eliot

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“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.” 

― George R.R. Martin

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” 

― Desiderius Erasmus

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” 

― Stephen King

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“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” 

― Henry Ward Beecher

“I cannot live without books.” 

― Thomas Jefferson

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” 

― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.” 

― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.” 

― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

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“If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.” 

-- Cornelia Funke

Quotables 1: Roald Dahl

Quotables 2: A.A. Milne