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Quotes About Books

Books … they're kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
Read! It is as important as breathing until you are breathing.
~ Hira Shahid Kazim
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
~ C.S. Lewis
Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.
~ Jackson Pearce
I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.
~ Anne Holm
Let your love for books grow, as your confidence grows too.
~ Liza Osae-Kwapong
One of the ways to get the information or knowledge to is by reading!
~ Michael Mnyameni
Let your love for book grow, as your confidence grows.
~ Liza D. Osae-Kwapong
I shall never exchange reading for riches.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Motivational and moral books can change your present and future. Only The Bible can change your past.
~ Alin Sav
When I die I hope it may be said:'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Libraries are more than just a storage place for books, they are treasure troves filled with creativity and knowledge. And that knowledge can be empowering.
~ R.L. Hemlock
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.
~ Christopher Morley
Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.
~ Warren Buffett
Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.
~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
~ Paracelsus
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.
~ Sivananda
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
~ Harriet Martineau
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
~ Toni Morrison
It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.
~ Sutton E. Griggs
Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Thank you American Library Association for naming The Gluten-Free Revolution one of the "Top 10 Food Books of 2014" Thrilled to share this honor with Alice Waters, Mark Bittman, Ruth Reichl, Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, et al
~ Jax Peters Lowell
If you love paper, you can print the e-book and have lots of paper.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
A personal library is an X-ray of the owner's soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way of being in the world. Even how the books are arranged on the shelves deserves notice, even reflection. There is probably no such thing as complete chaos in such arrangements.
~ Jay Parini