Quotes About Books

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.

When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

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.

Reading is not optional.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library."

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.