Here are 39 book quotes that are motivational and inspirational
1. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis
2. “Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life.” ― Helen Exley
3. “So many books, so little time.” ― Frank Zappa
4. “A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.” ― W.H. Auden
5. “You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” ― Paul Sweeney
6. “Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” ― P.J. O’Rourke
7. “All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.” ― Ernest Hemingway
8. “I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.” ― Harold Kushner
9. “To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” ― Edmund Burke
10. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ― Cicero
11. “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” ― Henry David Thoreau
12. “If you love books enough, books will love you back.” ― Jo Walton
13. “The book you don’t read won’t help.” ― Jim Rohn
14. “There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” ― Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
15. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ― Haruki Murakami
16. “A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” ― Chinese Proverb
17. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” ― Ernest Hemingway
18. “Outside of a dog a book is man’s best friend. Inside a dog it’s too dark to read.” ― Groucho Marx
19. “Never judge a book by its movie.” ― J.W. Eagan
20. “You are today who you’ll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.” ― Charlie “Tremendous” Jones
21. “A man will turn over half a library to make one book.” ― Samuel Johnson
22. “Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.” ― John Green
23. “Books are mirrors. You only see in them what you already have inside of you.” ― Carlos Zafon
24. “Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.” ― Stephen King
25. “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. “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
27. “A book worth reading is worth buying.” ― John Ruskin
28. “A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” ― Neil Gaiman
29. “Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.” ― William Feather
30. “A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.” ― Edward Morgan
31. “Books are so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.” ― John Green
32. “I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.” ― Woodrow Wilson
33. “The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.” ― James Bryce
34. “Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.” ― Vera Nazarian
35. “Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.” ― Author Unknown
36. “A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.” ― Thomas Carlyle
37. “There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.” ― Gilbert K. Chesterton
38. “My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.” ― Abraham Lincoln
39. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” ― Walt Disney
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