Book Lover Quotes - Page 2

• Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

  Charles Kingsley

  Reading, Book, Men

  Charles Kingsley (1849). “Twenty-five Village Sermons”, p.254

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• Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1655, Delphi Classics

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• Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.235

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• Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

  Diane Setterfield

  Book, Faces, Clients

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun.

  Nick Hornby

  Fun, Book, Letters

  "Stuff I’ve Been Reading". www.believermag.com. October 2005.

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• Books are more real when you read them outside.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Real, Book, Shiver

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.175, Scholastic UK

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• My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily pick up on your own. It's a chance to expand your horizons a little.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Winning, Horizon

  "Patrick Rothfuss on his charitable fans, priorities, and kissing a llama". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2014.

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• I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn.

  Helene Hanff

  Book, Leaving, Sprinkles

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• Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You just know that they're all right, and probably doing something they like.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Book, Thinking, Long

  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.202, Pan Macmillan

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• A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

  Jeremy Collier

  Book, Reading, Men

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Eye, Library

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• Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

  Alexander Smith

  Book, Night, Library

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.222, tredition

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• One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Character, Lovers

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.131

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• Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

  Jeremy Collier

  Book, Age, Entertainment

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

  William Wordsworth

  Book, Past, Lovers

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• We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Book, Merit, Lovers

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.426

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• It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

  James Gleick

  Art, Book, Cds

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• I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

  Asa Larsson

  Children, Father, Book

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• The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.

  John Herschel

  Powerful, Book, Civilization

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.

  George Dyer

  Book, Library, Literature

  George Dyer (1814). “History of the University and colleges of Cambridge: including notices relating to the founders and eminent men”, p.6

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• I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Thinking, Library, Matter

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.340, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

  Joseph Addison

  Book, Legacy, Generations

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.216

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• When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.

  John Green

  Girl, Hipster, Book

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.68, Penguin

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• I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

  John Donne

  Book, Reading, Lovers

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.169, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Pages, Life Is

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.539, Simon and Schuster

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