I now have over 100 followers! 🎉 To celebrate, this post has 100 quotes about books. Not all of them have attributions – some of them are just fun sayings. If you know of an attribution that I don’t have, please let me know.

PLUS I also have a young adult book giveaway!! Details are at the end of this post.

1. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
2. “Bookmarks are for quitters.”
3. “A day without reading is like… just kidding. I have no idea.”
4. “We lose ourselves in books. We find ourselves there too.”
5. “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” Oscar Wilde
6. “I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” J. K. Rowling
7. “Everyone is a reader… Some just haven’t found their favorite book yet.”
8. “You know you’re a bookworm when your house is one book away from being considered a library.”
9. “I enjoy long romantic walks through the bookstore….”
10. “Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession… but about securing a portal.” Laura Miller
11. “Ordinary people have big TVs, extraordinary people have big libraries.”
12. “I see a book, I see coffee, I see a good day ahead.”
13. “All the secrets in the world are contained in books.” Lemony Snicket
14. “A good book makes you want to live in the story. A great book gives you no choice.”
15. “I have a terrible sleeping disorder. It’s called reading books that are too good.”
16. “To read a book for the first time is to make a new acquaintance; to read it a second time is to meet an old friend.” Chinese proverb
17. “The cure for boredom is books. There is no cure for books.”
18. “The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.” Harper Lee
19. “I tried everything to get to sleep last night. Well, everything closing the book and putting it on the nightstand. Let’s not get too crazy.”
20. “Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books – even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.” William Gladstone
21. “Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.” Lloyd Alexander
22. “To read or not to read… that is a silly question.”
23. “Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?” David Baldacci
24. “Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. Some books just swallow you up heart and soul.” Joanne Harris
25. All I want is peace, love, understanding and a library bigger than the Grand Canyon.”
26. “What do you mean ‘I can’t believe you read the whole book already?!’ What are you supposed to do once it’s open?”
27. “So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.” William James
28. “I’m a bookaholic on the road to recovery. Just kidding. I’m on the road to the bookstore.”
29. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” Cicero
30. “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” Descartes
31. “Book hangover: The struggle a person goes through trying to reconnect with reality after finishing an amazing book.”
32. “There is space on everyone’s bookshelves for books you have outgrown but can’t give away. They hold your youth between their pages, like flowers pressed on a half-forgotten Summer’s day.”
33. “Did you order from Amazon again? We’re getting your books their own house.” from Gilmore Girls
34. “I never understood people who don’t have bookshelves.” George Plimpton
35. “Hell hath no fury like a woman interrupted in the middle of one of her favorite author’s books.”
36. “We read to know we’re not alone.” William Nicholson
37. “When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, decinding what the characters are wearing, how they’re standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. Your brain paints the pictures.” Meg Rosoff
38. “A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” Chinese proverb
39. “I don’t buy books. I adopt them.”
40. “If there is a book that you want to read but it hasn’t been written yet then you must write it.” Toni Morrison
41. “Books are proof that humans can work magic.”
42. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… the man who never reads lives only one.” George R. R. Martin
43. “Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.” Neil Gaiman
44. “Books aren’t just made of words, you know… they’re also filled with places to visit and people to meet.”
45. “To a bibliophile there is only one thing better than a box of new books. And that is a box of old books.”
46. “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 Eliot
47. “I love books because I don’t have to wait for the commercials to be over to find out what happens.”
48. “Oh for a book and a shady nook either indoors or out with the green leaves whispering overhead or the street cries all about where I may read at all my ease both of the new and old for a jolly good book whereon to look is better to me than gold.” John Wilson
49. “Books fall open, you fall in.” David McCord
50. “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and the sweet serenity of books.” Henry Longfellow
51. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” Walt Disney
52. “Write to be understood, speak to be heard, and read to grow.” Lawrence Powell
53. “Reading is to your brain what water is to a tree.” Terry Hill
54. “When we read and write, we become superheroes, sports starts, mermaids, angels, grown-ups, and crazy creatures.”
55. “Read more books it’s good for your soul.”
56. “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” W. Somerset Maugham
57. “Reading is the ultimate adventure, books are the ultimate destination.” Mark Ankerud
58. “Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood.” John Green
59. “Did you know that parents are the key reading role models? High frequency reading parents are six times more likely to have high frequency reading children.” Karon Graham
60. “The stories we love best live in us forever.” J. K. Rowling
61. “Read in order to live.” Gustave Flaubert
62. “To find just the right book at the moment when the soul is hungry for it is a miracle, and not a small one.” Jane Steger
63. “You’re never too old/too wacky/too wild/to pick up a book and read to a child.” Dr. Seuss
64. “Any books that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” Maya Angelou
65. “Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.” Paul Theroux
66. “I walk into a bookstore like I’m in a musical.”
67. “Happiness is a cup of coffee and a good book.”
68. “Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when I have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am.”
69. “When I’m really into a novel, I’m seeing the world differently during that time – not just for an hour or so in the day when I get to read. I’m actually walking around in a bit of a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.” Colin Firth
70. “You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be – I had a mother who read to me.” Strickland Gillilan
71. “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
72. “The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.” Benjamin Franklin
73. “When I say ‘I wish they would turn this book into a movie’ what I really mean is ‘I wish they would turn this book into a 17-hour-long spectacle that includes every single solitary detail and doesn’t deviate at all from the storyline and has perfect casting.'” Problemsofabooknerd.tumblr.com
74. “The more you read the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss
75. “The best place for your nose is in a book.”
76. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
77. “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.” Dr. Seuss
78. “Cutting libraries in a recession is like cutting hospitals in a plague.” Eleanor Crumblehulme
79. “Reading is dreaming with open eyes.”
80. “Fill your house with stacks of books, In all the crannies and all the nooks.” Dr. Seuss
81. “The journey of a lifetime starts with the turning of a page.” Rachel Adams
82. “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” Mark Twain
83. “Each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from elsewhere.” Lois Lowry
84. “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” Confucius
85. “Reading gives us a place to go when we have to stay where we are.”
86. “What you read when you don’t have to determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” Oscar Wilde
87. “It has always been great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part of my life.”
88. “A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.” David Mitchell
89. “One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” Theresa Gray
90. “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine pleasurably.” C. S. Lewis
91. “I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It’s strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.” John Green
92. “I am simply a book drunkard.” L. M. Montgomery
93. “Without libraries, what do we have? We have no past and no future.” Ray Bradbury
94. “There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.” Jacqueline Kennedy
95. “That’s how it is with books, isn’t it: They’re not in a hurry. They’ll wait for you till you’re ready.” Charles Bukowski
96. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” C. S. Lewis
97. “If you think reading is boring, you’re doing it wrong.”
98. “Books are the perfect entertainment; no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everyone doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” Stephen King
99. “I was born with a reading list I will never finish.” Maud Casey
100. “I don’t have a favorite book, I have hundreds.” J. K. Rowling

And now for the fun part – a giveaway!

Winner will receive the following ten books listed below. All of the books are used (I read them :D) but are in very good condition.

The Martian by Andy Weir (paperback)
Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins (paperback)
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (paperback)
Magnolia by Kristi Cook(paperback)
Tin Star by Cecil Castellucci (paperback)
Stone in the Sky by Cecil Castellucci (hardcover)
Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger (paperback)
Curtsies and Conspiracies by Gail Carriger (hardcover)
Waistcoats and Weaponry by Gail Carriger (hardcover)
Manners and Mutiny by Gail Carriger (hardcover)

Sweepstakes will be open to entry between December 26, 2017 and midnight Arizona time on January 2, 2018. Approximate retail value of giveaway is $32 (US) based on current Amazon prices. No prize substitutions allowed.

Giveaway open to those 18 and older who are residents of the United States. (I don’t have the legal knowledge to open it up to younger or international readers, I’m sorry!)

Winner will be chosen using the Rafflecopter below. I will email the winner on January 3 to get their mailing address. If they don’t respond within a week, I will use the Rafflecopter to choose another winner. No purchase necessary, void where prohibited by law. The number of eligible entries received determines the odds of winning. One entry per person. Duplicate entries will be deleted.
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