Book Lovers Day & Quotes To Match!

Happy National Book Lovers Day! Today, I’d like to share some of my favorite quotes about books, reading, and literature itself, to celebrate!

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King

“I love books. I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas. I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.” – Nnedi Okorafor

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Cicero

“In the end, we’ll all become stories.” – Margaret Atwood

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” ― Madeleine L’Engle

“A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“… a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” ― George R.R. Martin

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.” ― Mark Twain

“Books may well be the only true magic.” ― Alice Hoffman

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.” ― Tahereh Mafi

“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.” ― Louisa May Alcott

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L’Engle

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle

“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.” ― Malcolm X

“Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.” ― Alberto Manguel

And of course, a pithy little ending from John Waters: “If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!”