Quotes about books from famous authors
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"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."
- George R.R. Martin
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
- C.S. Lewis
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
- Jane Austen
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
- Ernest Hemingway
"A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."
- Neil Gaiman
“I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
- Jane Austen
“‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read."
- Mark Twain
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
- Mark Twain
Picking five favourite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.”
- Neil Gaiman
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
- Stephen King