Love books? Love reading books so much that you often call fictional characters your besties? Ever imagined what it would be like to live inside of a book? And also wished that your favourite author was alive so you could perhaps meet them?
Well, we feel you, fellow book reader, and as it turns out, so do these quotes on reading books! Here are some of our all-time favourites:
- “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” – Oscar Wilde
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- “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” – Joseph Brodsky
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- “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
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- “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.” – J.K. Rowling
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- “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- “I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx
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- “My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.” – Abraham Lincoln
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- “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” — Confucius
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- “We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t f*ck them. Don’t sleep with people who don’t read!” — John Waters
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- “Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain
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