20 Unfading Quotes about Books for All Times

No doubt, there are so many wise and truthful thoughts about books that perhaps every reader could chose the one not repeating the others. Still, there are some of them that go through times and epochs, never losing their actuality and remaining as fresh as aurora for every consequent generation of the readers. And what makes them even more powerful, these thoughts were stated by the great readers and writers who have come through hundreds of pages before sharing their experience with the others.

Today I have collected the first set of quotes devoted to books which will definitely warm the heart of every keen bookworm like myself.

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” Franz Kafka

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” Ernest Hemingway

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” George R.R. Martin

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” Stephen King

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” C.S.Lewis

“Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.” Stephen King

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.” J.K. Rowling

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

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

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” Fran Lebowitz

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” Joseph Brodsky

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.” Virginia Woolf

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” W. Somerset Maugham

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.” Henry Miller

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.” Astrid Lindgren

“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.” Stephane Mallarme

“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

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” Gustave Flaubert

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” Oscar Wilde