Here are lesser-known but brilliant quotes that motivate to read books and use libraries more often than ever before. Ready to share as images in your social media.
There is no such thing as too many books. And there is no such thing as too many book quotes.
If you were looking for quotes about books and libraries, you must have discovered lists by Goodreads, BrainyQuote, or Good Housekeeping, already. We hope you’ve come across one of our tailored lists with book quotes lists as well.
The problem with these lists is that in most cases they highlight the most popular book quotes – the ones you already know and don’t find inspiring any longer.
Sometimes, a brilliant passage about the joy of reading can be found on the 10th or 20th page of the book quote directory on Goodreads, liked by “only” 100 users or 200 users. It’s not that this quote is not good enough. The point is that it has not yet been discovered.
That’s why we’ve come up with a new selection of book quotes. This time the rule is simple: you will find here only the quotes that highlight the benefits and importance of books and libraries.
As usual, multiple quotes are visualized so that you can easily share them across your social media channels – if you are determined enough to spread the love of books. See the highlights below.
Where to find inspiring book quotes?
From our experience, the best source of new thoughts about books, libraries, and reading is Twitter. And, thanks to popular daily hashtags (such as #MondayMotivation, #TuesdayThoughts, or #ThursdayThoughts), it’s easy to spot the most interesting ones.
The best book quotes are shared by a few Twitter profiles, and we are excited to recommend them to you:
NJ State Library – if you are looking for the constant stream of inspiring quotes on books and libraries, this single profile should make you more than happy. In fact, most quotes in this overview are coming from the NJ State Library’s Twitter account. At least one motivational book-related quote a day guaranteed!
The Paris Review – a Twitter profile of this influential literary magazine shares the most important passages from current articles and interviews. Following it is a must for anyone who is interested in seeing how literature evolves in the digital times.
Penguin Books UK – join almost 2 million Twitter followers to read not only the latest book releases but also timely quotes from your favorite authors. Want to find a quote from the author who is born today? You’ll find it in the Penguin Books UK account.
Maria Popova – on her Twitter profile, Maria Popova shares most interesting excerpts from articles (current and archive) she wrote on her popular Brain Pickings blog which is an “inquiry into what it means to live a decent, substantive, rewarding life.” Not all quotes are about books, but when you find one, you will be amazed.
Goodreads – the most popular Twitter profile for book lovers (3.7 million followers) delivers a perfectly balanced set of tweets that will keep you in the mood of reading books and talking about them. The quotes about books and reading are shared as images, and it’s hard to resist to repost them!
If you are looking for book quotes that are visualized and ready to share on social media, make sure to get in touch on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.
50 best quotes on the importance of libraries and books
1
There is no problem that a library card can’t solve.
– Eleanor Brown
2
Reading allows us to see and understand the world through the eyes of others.
– Chris Riddell
3
Saying the Internet makes librarians obsolete is like saying the plague makes doctors obsolete.
– Cory Doctorow
4
If you wish to renew your mind, read.
– Lailah Gifty Akita
5
Libraries, in the past, the present, and the future, are the memory and workshop of humanity.
– Christian Lauersen
6
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
– Mortimer J. Adler
7
The library is the place I go when I want to be in the know.
– Charmaine J. Forde
8
A library card is a powerful weapon to change lives. With it, we learn how to value what we have, to mourn what we have lost and to dream of what we might become.
– Val McDermid
9
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
– Mary Ellen Chase
10
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
– Jeanette Winterson
11
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
– Alan Bennett
12
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
– Benedict Cumberbatch
13
One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
– Carl Sagan
14
A library doesn’t need windows. A library is a window.
– Stewart Brand
15
When you read a book, you hold another’s mind in your hands.
– James Burke
16
The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.
– Michael Bassey Johnson
17
I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
– Anne Tyler
18
Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.
– Plato
19
Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries.
– Simon Van Booy
20
One of the best things about reading is that you’ll always have something to think about when you’re not reading.
– James Patterson
21
A trip to the library is like coming home and going on an adventure at the same time.
– Megan Shepherd
22
Libraries are no longer archaic rooms of dusty books, but part of a global network that’s championing open access.
– Georgina Cronin
23
There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.
– James Patterson
24
A good book is an empathy engine.
– Chris Riddell
25
A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.
– Vicki Myron
26
If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance.
– Sherman Alexie
27
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
– Orhan Pamuk
28
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
– René Descartes
29
Maybe reading is like sex – best discovered on one’s own.
– J.D. McClatchy
30
I don’t have to look far to find treasures. I discover them every time I visit the library.
– Michael Embry
31
If you are going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books.
– Roald Dahl
32
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
– François Mauriac
33
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
– John Lubbock
34
Reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
– Annie Proulx
35
A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.
– Lilian Jackson Braun
36
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
– Kate DiCamillo
37
You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
– Al Pacino
38
For everyone, a book is a search and hopefully a discovery.
– Shelby Foote
39
The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.
– Vartan Gregorian
40
It is better to be shoeless than bookless.
– Icelandic Proverb
41
Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
– Samuel Butler
42
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
43
To read is to voyage through time.
– Carl Sagan
44
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
– Carl T. Rowan
45
An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.
– Thomas Wharton
46
A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
– Jerry Seinfeld
47
Libraries aren’t in the real world. They’re places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought.
– Paul Auster
48
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
– Margaret Atwood
49
You live several lives while reading.
– William Styron
50
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
– Albert Einstein
51
Books are… companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind.
– Barbara W. Tuchman
52
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
– Napoléon Bonaparte
53
Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood.
– John Green
54
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
– Patrick Ness
55
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.
– Walt Disney
56
The school library may well be the most important room in any public school building.
– Chris Crutcher
57
A home without a book is darker than one without a lamp.
– Henryk Sienkiewicz
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