My favourite quotes about books and reading

Today I'm sharing some of my favourite quotes about books and reading!

"Wear the old coat and buy the new book." - Austin Phelps

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?" - Henry Ward Beecher

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." - Joseph Addison

"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are." – Mason Cooley

"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." - W. Somerset Maugham

"That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet." - Jhumpa Lahiri

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"Once you've read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you." – Louis L'Amour

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." – Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while." – Malorie Blackman

"Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again." – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours." - Alan Bennett

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all." - Abraham Lincoln

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"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies... The man who never reads lives only one." - George R.R.Martin

"There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat." - E. Nesbit

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." - P.J. O’Rourke

"Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks." - Dr. Seuss

"The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library." - Albert Einstein

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." - Lemony Snicket

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"There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all." - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall." - Roald Dahl

"Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world." - Jeanette Winterson

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all." - Henry David Thoreau

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." - Italo Calvino

"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in." - Robert Louis Stevenson