Bookish Quotes

"No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books."

          ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

          -Scout Finch in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird

"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?'
           ~Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.”
     ~Abraham Lincoln

“We read to know we are not alone.”
          ~C.S. Lewis

“There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.”
          ~Jacqueline Kennedy

“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.”
          ~Katherine Patterson

"A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend."
          ~Author Unknown

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
           ~Attributed to Groucho Marx

"Books are a uniquely portable magic."
           ~Stephen King

"I cannot live without books!"
          ~Thomas Jefferson

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” ~Victor Hugo

“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