World Book Day 2017: Inspiring Quotes About Books And Reading

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” — Jane Austen “Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.” — Mark Haddon “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” ? Groucho Marx “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ? C.S. Lewis “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” ? Oscar Wilde “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” ? Ernest Hemingway “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” ? Charles William Eliot “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.” ? Cassandra Clare “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” — Ray Bradbury “I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.” — L.M. Montgomer “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 “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.” ? George R.R. Martin “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” ? Stephen King “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.” ? J.K. Rowling