Quotes about Books
Our library isn't very extensive, said Anne, but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph.
— LM Montgomery
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! - take them out of this book, for instance, - you might as well take the book along with them
— Laurence Sterne
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
— Abraham Lincoln
Because books, my friends, are true magic bound between two covers.
— Dolly Parton
A room without books is like a life without meaning.
— Thomas Jefferson
...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
— William Faulkner
Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go.
— Ernest Hemingway
For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.
— Ernest Hemingway
One of my favorite quotes: There is no friends as loyal as a book -Ernest Hemingway
— Ernest Hemingway
I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It's been printed all over, so I don't feel like I am hiding anything.
— Joel Osteen
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we give.
— Robin Sharma