15 Quotes Only True Book-Lovers Will Understand


Top post on IndiBlogger, the biggest community of Indian BloggersBook Lovers Day is celebrated on August 9, every year. It’s a day for bookworms to celebrate their love for books. What better way to express this love for books than these quotes from famous writers and authors themselves?  These are the quotes that only true book-lovers will understand. And these are the quotes that describe exactly why they love books so much. Check them out…

That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. — Jhumpa Lahiri

 

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book. — J.K. Rowling

 

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. — George R.R. Martin​

 

“You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside. ― Cassandra Clare

 

The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library. — Albert Einstein

 

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. — Diane Duane

15 Quotes Only True Book-Lovers Will Understand

 

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. — George R.R. Martin

 

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. — David Mitchell

 

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. — Lemony Snicket

 

I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That’s right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that’s kind of perverted or maybe it’s just romantic and highly intelligent. ― Sherman Alexie

 

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. — Paul Sweeney

 

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It’s like falling in love. ― Christopher Morley

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It's like falling in love.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed … No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over. ― Eugene Field

 

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. ―Anne Lamott,

 

Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading. — Lena Dunham

And I absolutely vote for the last one!!

Tell me, which is your favourite quote from these? Which quote resonates with you the most?