50 most convincing quotes about the importance of books and libraries

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 , , or ), 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.

Best quotes about the importance of books and libraries

50 best quotes on the importance of libraries and books

1

Eleanor Brown - best quotes on the importance of libraries

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

Lailah Gifty Akita - best quotes on the importance of books

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

Mortimer J. Adler - best quotes on the importance of books

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

Mary Ellen Chase - best quotes on the importance of books

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

Benedict Cumberbatch - best quotes on the importance of books

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

James Burke - best quotes on the importance of books

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

Plato - best quotes on the importance of books

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

Megan Shepherd - best quotes on the importance of libraries

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

Chris Riddell - best quotes on the importance of books

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

Orhan Pamuk - best quotes on the importance of books

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

Michael Embry - best quotes on the importance of libraries

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

John Lubbock - best quotes on the importance of libraries

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

Lilian Jackson Braun - best quotes on the importance of libraries

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

Al Pacino - best quotes on the importance of books

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

Icelandic Proverb - best quotes on the importance of books

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

Carl Sagan - best quotes on the importance of books

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

Thomas Wharton - best quotes on the importance of books

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

Margaret Atwood - best quotes on the importance of books

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

Albert Einstein - best quotes on the importance of books

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

Napoleon Bonaparte - best quotes on the importance of books

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

Patrick Ness - best quotes on the importance of libraries

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

A home without a book is darker than one without a lamp.

– Henryk Sienkiewicz

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  1. […] For the newest book quotes, make sure to follow NJ State Library and The Paris Review on Twitter. Lesser-known quotes (but at least as inspiring as classic thoughts) can be found in the Goodreads’ quote directory. In a separate list, we picked and visualized the best Goodreads’ quotes about the importance of books and libraries. […]

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