A selection of my all time favorite quotes about books and reading. If I actually put down the books…I would have time to embroider these on pillows! Tell us your favorite book quote in the comments section.
“Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.” -Stephen King
“It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of others – even my nearest and dearest – there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a book.” –Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading; Finding and Losing Myself in Books
“The world was hers for the reading.” Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“I’ve got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!” -Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls
“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.” -Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” -Stephen King
“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore it knows it’s not fooling a soul.” -Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.” -Joseph Joubert
“A house without books is like a room without windows.” -Horace Mann
“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.” –Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” -Jorge Luis Borges
“If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!” -John Waters
“The covers of this book are too far apart” -Ambrose Bierce
“Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.” –Stephen King
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” -Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” -Henry Ward Beecher
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” -C.S. Lewis
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” -Stephen King, On Writing
“I cannot live without books.” -Thomas Jefferson
“The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes” -Agatha Christie
“The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.” -Alfred Hitchcock
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” -Francis Bacon
“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.” -Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” -J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” -Toni Morrison
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