{"id":5363,"date":"2017-12-31T09:41:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T16:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=5363"},"modified":"2017-12-31T09:43:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T16:43:46","slug":"quotes-about-books-from-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/quotes-about-books-from-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes About Books From Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Book.jpg\" alt=\"quotes about books\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Book.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Book-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Book-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Sleep is good,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And books are better.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=A%20Clash%20of%20Kings\">A Clash of Kings<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=George%20R.%20R.%20Martin\">George R. 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Martin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Agnes%20Grey\">Agnes Grey<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Anne%20Bronte\">Anne Bronte<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Books are the mirrors of the soul.&#8221;\u00a0~\u00a0<\/b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Between%20the%20Acts\">Between the Acts<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Virginia%20Woolf\">Virginia Woolf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Coming%20Race\">The Coming Race<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Edward%20Bulwer-Lytton\">Edward Bulwer-Lytton<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,&#8221; said Jojen. &#8220;The man who never reads lives only one.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=A%20Dance%20with%20Dragons\">A Dance with Dragons<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=George%20R.%20R.%20Martin\">George R. R. Martin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Every page of every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Martin%20Eden\">Martin Eden<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Jack%20London\">Jack London<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;The proper study of mankind is books.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Crome%20Yellow\">Crome Yellow<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Aldous%20Huxley\">Aldous Huxley<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;It&#8217;s all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it&#8217;s not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Anne%20of%20Green%20Gables\">Anne of Green Gables<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Lucy%20Maud%20Montgomery\">Lucy Maud Montgomery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=A%20Game%20of%20Thrones\">A Game of Thrones<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=George%20R.%20R.%20Martin\">George R. R. Martin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Jude%20the%20Obscure\">Jude the Obscure<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Thomas%20Hardy\">Thomas Hardy<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_topic_resp.php?QuoteType=Book\">More Quotes about Books from Literature<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes about Books from Literature &#8211; &#8220;A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,&#8221; said Jojen. &#8220;The man who never reads lives only one.&#8221;\u00a0~\u00a0George R. R. 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