Books quotations

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◆ There is no friend as loyal as a book.

- Ernest Hemingway99

◆ What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

- J.D. Salinger99

◆ Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

- John Green99

◆ 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'Engle99

◆ Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.

- Mark Twain99

◆ Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

- Mark Twain99

◆ If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

- Toni Morrison99

◆ I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

- Jane Austen99

◆ The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

- William Styron99

◆ 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 Eliot99

◆ A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

- George R.R. Martin99

◆ Books are a uniquely portable magic.

- Stephen King99

◆ A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

- Gustave Flaubert99