Sometimes it’s easy to get wrapped up in being an author that you forget what made you become one in the first place: a love of books.
When you’re so busy with writing and marketing and sell, sell, selling, it’s important to take a breather and stop and smell the roses, too!
Here are a bunch of our favorite quotes that help us remember how much we love book and reading.
“I cannot live without books.”
—Thomas Jefferson
“Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.”
—Author Unknown
“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”
—Alan Bennett
“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
—Abraham Lincoln
“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.”
—Edward P. Morgan
“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
—Henry Ward Beecher
“Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.”
—John Green
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
—Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
—Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
—Philip Pullman
“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
—Jorge Luis Borges
“A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.”
—Neil Gaiman
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
—Frederick Douglas
“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.”
—Toni Morrison
“Books may well be the only true magic.”
—Alice Hoffman
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
—William Styron
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
—Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
—Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
“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
“I cannot live without books.”
—Thomas Jefferson
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
—Joseph Brodsky
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
—Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
—Ernest Hemingway
What are your favorite bookish quotes?
