Quotes about Books

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

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.
Author Unknown

A good book has no ending.
R.D. Cumming

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

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell Hooks

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Cicero

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G.K. Chesterton

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold Bloom

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