Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Favorite Book Quotes.
My focus this time around is quotes about reading. Here are some quotes I love:
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
– Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
– Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
“… a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
– George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
– Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
“A library is infinity under a roof.”
– Gail Carson Levine
“Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and well, let’s just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.”
– Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
– Philip Pullman
“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
– Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”
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“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
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What book quotes do you love? Please share your TTT link!
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