Books bring us many things: companionship, comfort, adventure, refuge, joy, humanity, inspiration—the list is ever growing. A kliedescope of emotions, memories, thoughts and opinions. Books take us places that reality cannot sometimes. Many people, those who do not read mainly, do not understand the power that a good book can hold over someone. Any true book lover will appreciate the following 50 quotes.
1. "She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live." -Annie Dillard
2. "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." -George R.R. Martin
3. "One must always be careful of books and what's inside them, for words have the power to change us." - Cassandra Clare
4. "If a book is well written, I always find it too short." -Jane Austen
5. "I am part of everything that I have read." -Theodore Roosevelt
6. "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." -Dr. Seuss
7. "There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." -Walt Disney
8. "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
9. "Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are." -Mason Cooley
10. "I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book." -J. K. Rowling
11. "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." -Charles William Eliot
12. "No two persons ever read the same book." -Edmund Wilson
13. "Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul." -Joanne Harris
14. "Sleep is good, he said, And books are better." -George R.R. Martin
15. "Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." -Anna Quindlen
16. "Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes a place for that." -John Green
17. "Once you learn to read, you will forever be free." -Fredrick Douglass
18. "A room without books is like a body without a soul." -Cicero
19. "I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them." -Emma Thompson
20. "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." -C. S. Lewis
21. "The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one which makes you think." -Harper Lee
22. "If you're going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books." -Roald Dahl
23. "Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have." -Lloyd Alexander
24. "Books are a uniquely portable magic." -Stephen King
25. "No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance." -Confucius
26. "I do not read because I have a renounced life; I read because one life is just not enough for me." -Abbas Al-Akkad
27. "So often, a visit to the bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world." -Vincent Van Gogh
28. "That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you are not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong." -F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. "The habit of reading is the only enjoyment I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will last you until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." -Anthony Trollope
30. "A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through." -Jeanette Winterson
31. "Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life." -Stephen King
32. "I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple." -Jean-Paul Sarte
33. "Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." -Kathleen Norris
34. "When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you." -Lemony Snicket
35. "Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again." -Louisa May Alcott
36. "The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library." -Albert Einstein
37. "Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book." -Jane Smiley
38. "To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." -W. Somerset Maugham
39. "A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader, is a rereader." -Vladimir Nabokov
40. "In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own." -Anna Quindlen
41. "Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere." -Jean Rhys
42. "In the end, we'll all become stories." -Margaret Atwood
43. "A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." -Madeleine L'engld
44. "All the reading she had done had given her a view of life they had never seen." -Roald Dahl, Matilda
45. "Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading." -Rainer Maria Rilke
46. "We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images." -John Gardner
47. "A book is a dream that you hold in your hand." -Neil Gaiman
