Top 45 Thoughtful Quotes About Books

Thoughtful Quotes About Books – Books have always been a source of information and a world of creativity depending on who you ask. Whether we read for pleasure, education, or personal growth, books offer a chance to explore new worlds and perspectives. There is no shortage of discussions when it comes to books and especially no shortage of lines on how different people feel about books in general. Though not everyone is an avid reader, there are plenty of perspectives on the subject and these thoughtful quotes about books are a few of them:

• “A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
  – Garrison Keillor
• “A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.”
  – Neil Gaiman
• “You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
  – Paul Sweeney
• “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
  – Jhumpa Lahiri
• “Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.”
  – John Green
• “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
• “No two persons ever read the same book.”
  – Edmund Wilson
• “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
  – William Styron
• “I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.”
  – Emma Thompson
• “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”
  – Malala Yousafzai
• “What is inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all.”
  – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
•  “A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.”
  – Erica Jong
• “When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.”
  – Chloe Thurlow
•  “Generally speaking, books don’t cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.”
  – Pseudonymous Bosch
• “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

More Thoughtful Quotes about Books

•  “A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.”
  – Martin Farquhar Tupper
• “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
  – Franz Kafka
•  “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island…”
  – Walt Disney
• “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
  – Maya Angelou
• “Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.”
  – Mark Haddon
• “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
  – Stephen King
• “Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
  – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
  – Carl Sagan
• “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
  – Rene Descartes
• “Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you.”
  – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• “Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”
  – Jeanette Winterson
• “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
  – William Styron
• “Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from one generation to the next. Books save lives.”
  – Laurie Anderson
• “Books may well be the only true magic.”
  – Alice Hoffman

Other Lines About Books

• “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
  – Charles Baudelaire
• “A good book is an event in my life.”
  – Stendhal
• “Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
  – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
  – Louis L’Amour
• “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
  – Jane Smiley
• “I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
  – C.S. Lewis
• “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
  – Italo Calvino
• “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”
  – Ezra Pound
• “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”
  – Abraham Lincoln
• “Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”
  – E.B. White

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