Top 500 Book Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling.”

— Tony DeLiso

402. “Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.”

— Ray Bradbury

403. “I grew up kissing books and bread.”

— Salman Rushdie

404. “If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.”

— Roald Dahl

405. “Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

406. “As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine.”

— Louis Tomlinson

407. “You chose books, I chose looks. Now see the difference?”

— Roald Dahl

408. “There’s no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.”

— D.L. Moody

409. “I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist – books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.”

— Neil Gaiman

410. “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”

— Ray Bradbury

411. “Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in ‘What made you pick this book I didn’t want to be read to out of up for?’”

— Winston Churchill

412. “For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.”

— Ernest Hemingway

413. “He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.”

— Victor Hugo

414. “Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.”

— Walt Whitman

415. “If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.”

— D.L. Moody

416. “Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.”

— Ernest Hemingway

417. “Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.”

— J. C. Ryle

418. “It was a joy! Words weren’t dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.”

— Charles Bukowski

419. “Writing is alone, but I don’t think it’s lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they’re writing their book, and I think they’ll say no.”

— Margaret Atwood

420. “I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.”

— Umberto Eco

421. “How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

422. “If people don’t want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them? -Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book, to baseball commissioner Bud Selig about lagging baseball attendance Ninety percent of the game is half mental.”

— Yogi Berra

423. “The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

424. “Like books and black lives – albums still matter. Tonight and always.”

— Prince

425. “I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.”

— Louisa May Alcott

426. “This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.”

— Groucho Marx

427. “Adventure books are my personal favorites. ‘The Endurance,’ a story about Ernest Shackleton’s legendary Antarctica expedition, or ‘Into Thin Air,’ Jon Krakauer’s personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.”

— Dean Karnazes

428. “Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.”

— Richard Dawkins

429. “If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver’s Travels among them.”

— George Orwell

430. “You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I’m talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells.”

— Richard Dawkins

431. “Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

432. “I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out.”

— Angelina Jolie

433. “Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

434. “If I’m engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.”

— Anne Frank

435. “I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.”

— Oscar Wilde

436. “Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

437. “As we read spiritually about spiritual things, we open our hearts to God’s voice. Sometimes we must be willing to put down the book we are reading and just listen to what God is saying to us through our words.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

438. “I don’t condemn and I don’t convert. I’ve been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I’ve made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don’t have to believe it. Love is my religion.”

— Ziggy Marley

439. “When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cold and you warm as you write.”

— Ernest Hemingway

440. “Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”

— Stephen King

441. “One’s favorite book is as elusive as one’s favorite pudding.”

— E. M. Forster

442. “Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.”

— Thomas Paine

443. “Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.”

— Neil Gaiman

444. “I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”

— Woody Allen

445. “I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.”

— Terry Pratchett

446. “Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.”

— René Descartes

447. “The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.”

— Milton Friedman

448. “A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look.”

— Robert Frost

449. “The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

450. “Maybe you could be a great writer – maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper – but you might not know it until you write that English paper – that English class paper that’s assigned to you.”

— Barack Obama