The 30 Most Famous Book Quotes

Hey bookish people out there! Feeling too tired to read a book today? Ruminating how to pass the day without the caress of the books? Ugh! We feel you.

Then push aside those morning motivations and thoughtful Thursdays. Hmm! Have you ever wondered how a single page; single phrase; single second completely changes your perspective towards life? It may either make you feel delighted or may prick you with guilt for what you have been doing all your life. I believe both these feels are equally good to shape your life. Have you ever felt these kinds of sparks inside you that sprinkle more when you come across a quote rather than reading a whole book? Yes! Some quotes inebriate you more than liquor. Do you feel the same as I do? If yes, then we are here for you with “The 30 most famous book quotes ”. Hope you’ll stick to it.

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

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ― Stephen King

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

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

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” ― Jane Smiley

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

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” ― Diane Duane

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” ― Italo Calvino

“The world was hers for the reading.” ― Betty Smith

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” ― Franz Kafka

“A good book is an event in my life.” ― Stendhal

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

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.” ― David Mitchell

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” ― George Orwell

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” ― Louis L'Amour

“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.” ― Stéphane Mallarmé

“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.” ― Carolyn G. Heilbrun

“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.” ― David Mitchell

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” ― J.K. Rowling

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.” ― Neil Gaiman

“When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.” ― Jean Fritz

“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.” ― Malcolm X

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” ― Garrison Keillor

“Books are a narcotic.” ― Franz Kafka

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.” ― Anna Quindlen

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” ― René Descartes