Book Lover Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Lovers, Forget

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3195, Delphi Classics

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• 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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• The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Book, Excellence, Speech

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.88, M.E. Sharpe

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• Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

  Jodi Lynn Anderson

  Life, Book, Thinking

  Jodi Lynn Anderson (2013). “Tiger Lily”, p.186, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Book, Character, Paper

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• It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Order, Lovers

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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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• All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

  Eugene Field

  Book, Reading, Practice

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• Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

  John Green

  Real, Book, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.183, A&C Black

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