36 of the Best Book Lover Quotes for Readers
Quotes are a fantastic method to revisit a favorite moment or passage in a book without having to read the full chapter or book again. These 36 beautiful quotes for book lovers are perfect if you’re a reader. Find the top quotations from books right here!
Can you envision a world in which there were no books at all? Without books, work and play would not be possible, and we most likely would be completely different people.
These lovely statements on reading will certainly resonate with you if literature is your absolute passion.
Here are 36 quotations for book lovers that, perfectly capture the sentiments about books and reading. Hopefully, they also hit home with you.
1. “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
―Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
2. “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.”
―Mary McLeod Bethune
3. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
―George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
4. “I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.”
―Nnedi Okorafor
5. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
―Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
6. “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
―Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
7. “You can get lost in any library, no matter the size. But the more lost you are, the more things you’ll find.”
―Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen
8. “Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.”
―Ben Okri
9. “Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
―Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary
10. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
―Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
11. “Books were safer than other people, anyway.”
―Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
12. “Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.”
―Adelise M. Cullens
13. “A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
―Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
14. “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
―Anne Herbert
15. “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
―Jorge Luis Borges
16. “I believe there is power in words, power in asserting our existence, our experience, our lives, through words.”
―Jesmyn Ward, The Fire This Time
17. “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
―Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
18. “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
―Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
19. “No. I can survive well enough on my own — if given the proper reading material.”
―Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
20. “Once I began to read, I began to exist. I am what I read.”
―Walter Dean Myers, Open a World of Possible
21. “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
―Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
22. “Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
―David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
23. “I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else’s story, the delicious ache of a last page.”
―Naomi Shihab Nye
24. “Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.”
―Khaled Hosseini
25. “It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.”
―Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
26. “A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”
―Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas
27. “The problem with books is that they end.”
―Caroline Kepnes, You
28. “When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.”
―Maya Angelou
29. “In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
―Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
30. “I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”
―Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
31. “When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
―Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
32. “The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
―Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
33. “You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I’ve read a book, I don’t feel like I’ve finished anything. So I start a new one.”
―Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul
34. “Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
―R.L. Stine
35. “In the end, we’ll all become stories.”
―Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories
36. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
―Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
The reading-related sayings listed above include both classic and contemporary book lover quotations; all are excellent and deserving of note.
Here are some of the world’s greatest authors, both old and young, who have said the best things about books and bookworms. Which one was your favorite? Do you want to share any of your favorites?
