“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

“Beware the man of a single book.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.”
― François Truffaut

“Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“ভেবে-চিন্তে অগ্রপশ্চাৎ বিবেচনা করে বই কেনে সংসারী লোক। পাঁড় পাঠক বই কেনে প্রথমে দাঁত-মুখ খিঁচিয়ে, তারপর চেখে চেখে সুখ করে করে, এবং সর্বশেষে সে কেনে ক্ষ্যাপার মত, এবং চুর হয়ে থাকে মধ্যিখানে। এই একমাত্র ব্যসন, একমাত্র নেশা যার দরুন সকালবেলা চোখের সামনে সারে সারে গোলাপি হাতি দেখতে হয় না, লিভার পচে পটল তুলতে হয় না।”
― Syed Mujtaba Ali

“She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...”
― Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them.
- Florence Day”
― Ashley Poston, The Dead Romantics

“Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.”
― Anya Seton, The Winthrop Woman

“Never underestimate a bookworm”
― Louisa Klein, Supernatural Freak

“Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.”
― Mark Twain

“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.”
― Harold Bloom

“...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Farnham's Freehold

“Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?”
― Django Wexler, The Forbidden Library

“Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I enjoyed reading when I was a boy, but these days, I read all the time and it has rather taken the pleasure out of it for me. When I am at leisure, reading is the last thing I want to do.”

“That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“I wanted more time with the books. I wanted to spend the day in a quiet corner, sitting against a window, lost in words and worlds I had never been given access to.”
― Kiersten White, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

“You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read texts.”
― Melissa Marr, Radiant Shadows

“I also like to escape inside their world,
tucked behind their colorful spines. It forces me to fully invest
my mind into what I'm doing, not just my ears or my eyes.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“وَلا أحدَ يعْرِفُ أنَّنا كلمَا أغلقْنَا كتاباً كلما سددنَا النوافِذَ وتركنَا عالماً بكاملِهِ يموتُ اختناقاً”
― واسينى الأعرج

“I love book books, real books, books with spines and heart, dust jackets, books that smell of books. Take the frame from a painting and you have a painting, not art. Take the pages from a book and print them on a screen and you have the ghost of a book. Not a book.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.”
― Stefanos Livos

“كِتَابٌ تَعْنَى بِقِرَاءَتِهِ ولا تَسْتَقِي مِنْهُ عِبْرَةً"
"كَشَجَرَةِ الفَاكِهَةِ العَاقِرِ، تَسْقِيهَا ولا تَجْنِي مِنْهَا ثَمْرَةً”
― Mouloud Benzadi