Top 100 Books Are Friends Quotes
#1. ...there will always be books. ... Books are real objects. Books are friends. ... They're also ideas and emotions.
Stephen King
#2. Books are keys to wisdom's treasure;
Books are gates to lands of pleasure;
Books are paths that upward lead;
Books are friends. Come, let us read.
Emilie Poulsson
#3. I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.
Stanley Hauerwas
#4. My books are friends that never fail me.
(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)
Thomas Carlyle
#5. Books you've read are like old friends. You look up and you see a title that you've read and had pleasure from and it makes you feel very comfortable.
~Robert A.M. Stern, Architect
Estelle Ellis
#6. True browsing means that we discover shelves and subjects that we could not have anticipated when we started. And the books we read introduce us to other books, as if we are at a magnificent party of the mind, being ever welcomed by new friends to join in the conversation.
Ramona Koval
#7. Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.
Francis Bacon
#9. Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.
Lurlene McDaniel
#10. I find books in used-book stores, chain and independent stores, on friends' shelves and being read by some woman sitting opposite me on the subway. I find books the way a cow finds a new pasture, by looking to see where the other cows are headed.
Walter Mosley
#11. Books are like friends you can never put them down no matter how much you hate it...
Morgan
#12. Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#13. I shall conclude with a saying of Alponsus, surnamed the Wise, King of Aragon - that among so many things as are by men possessed or pursued in the course of their lives, all the rest are baubles, besides old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read!
William Temple
#14. You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'
Gail Collins
#15. What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you'll always be alright.
Brian Morton
#16. There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,
or enemies,
or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.
Carolyn Wells
#17. There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.
Pete Hamill
#18. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Johnny Got His Gun, A Farewell to Arms, A Prayer for Owen Meany, some years Wuthering Heights, Silas Marner, Their Eyes Were Watching God, or I Capture the Castle. Those books are like old friends. When
Gabrielle Zevin
#19. Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.
Charice Pempengco
#20. Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
John Steinbeck
#21. Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.
Michael A. Stackpole
#22. The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me
I have no others.
Thomas Bernhard
#23. I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.
Sarah Vowell
#24. Rows of books around me stand,
Fence me in on either hand;
Through that forest of dead words
I would hunt the living birds
So I write these lines for you
Who have felt the death-wish too,
All the wires are cut, my friends
Live beyond the severed ends.
Louis MacNeice
#27. 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
#28. Books are my friends, my companion. They make me laugh and cry and find the meaning of life
Christopher Paolini
#29. Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
-Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#30. Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#31. books. They are friends to the lonely, companions to the deserted, joy to the joyless, hope to the hopeless, good cheer to the disheartened, a helper to the helpless. They bring light into darkness, and sunshine into shadow.
Orison Swett Marden
#32. ...and my books are like friends that I come back to at night." ~Cynthia Batten
Cynthia Batten
#33. Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
Abraham Cowley
#34. When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends.
Donalyn Miller
#35. Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;-
All things, in short, to which belong
The charm, the grace that Time
makes strong,
All these I prize, but (entre nous)
Old friends are best!
Henry Austin Dobson
#36. If you are looking for a friend that will never change, go to the shelves, you'll find it there. It will never change and will stay the same today and forever.
Wency June Z. Libot
#37. The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
Edmund White
#40. friends are like books you use them when you need them but u will always remember them
Yasmine Gooneratne
#41. Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#42. You are like me, you have more books than you have friends, no matter what Facebook tells you about your social network.
Jason Merkoski
#43. I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
Tahereh Mafi
#44. Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well as computer's and Tv and everything else which doesn't have soul. Although that dogs and cats and many other animals are quite interesting friends.
Deyth Banger
#45. Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.
Beverly Lewis
#46. I do a lot of research and yes, do know quite a few police officers, friends of mine and my husbands. However, most of my books are researched based on Canadian laws or the laws of each country (ie: Mexico and USA) and I do my best to make them accurate.
Franny Armstrong
#47. One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.
Blake Mycoskie
#50. Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.
Joseph Barrell
#51. And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers.
Walter Scott
#52. Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.
Paullina Simons
#55. He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
Jasper Fforde
#56. I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.
Megan Fox
#57. The Books are our best friends that provide us right path in deep darkness.
Health
#58. Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
Agnes Repplier
#59. I just met Stephen King in my dreams... I just said what I have watched and read from his books... Mainly I received a hug from him, it was like we are friends from long time.
Deyth Banger
#60. Of all the gifts you can get, friends and family are the best!
Jan Britland
#61. There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
Henry Ford
#62. A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the blessing of God, the benefit of books, and the benevolence of friends.
Thomas Chalmers
#64. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.
D.E. Stevenson
#65. There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends - always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
J. Donald Adams
#66. If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#67. Books are our best friends we say, so can we call 'Paragraphs' as our 'Just Friends'?
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#68. There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women ... and Messi
Antonio Lobo Antunes
#69. Maybe I only think everyone wants to be a writer because the friends I naturally choose are people who love books. People who love books sooner or later dream of writing them. It's a natural response to stimuli.
Ellen Gilchrist
#70. My shows and books are an instant mood adjuster. They're my drugs of choice. And the fictional characters I love are like my friends.
Susane Colasanti
#71. For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So it's really amazing when your book gets out there and more people are reading and responding to it. It really makes the world of the books feel real.
Cassandra Clare
#72. ...her dearest friends are characters in books.
Sarah J. Maas
#73. She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.
E.M. Delafield
#74. Reading means never being bored and never being lonely. My books are my friends; they always provide me with a place to go.
Satinder Bhatti
#75. Ah,' said Zultan. 'I, too. I keep many books at my home.' He gestured to the books in the tent. 'These are only a few. Those I think might need on this trip, and those I have yet to read and might want, and those old friends that I cannot bear to leave behind.
T. Kingfisher
#76. perhaps we are not as free as we might think in the first place. Given your background, your friends, your family, the books you read, and the movies you watch, how surprising is your vote in a federal election?
Tyler Cowen
#79. Your best friend is the person who not only knows all the important stories and events in your life, but has lived through them with you. Your best friend isn't the person you call when you are in jail; mostly likely, she is sitting in the cell beside you.
Irene S. Levine
#80. Books are the best companions as they make you sit near wisdom.
Rajesh Nanoo
#81. Books are cold, but sure friends indeed.
Victor Hugo
#82. He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
Victor Hugo
#83. For friends ... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
Francis Bacon
#84. Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.
Julie Gregory
#85. I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#86. He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.
Victor Hugo
#87. Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.
Christopher Paolini
#88. When you are a success, your old friends will boast of your accomplishments and your new friends will celebrate your achievements. Your old friends will say " i knew you when you were.." Don't worry about them, their story ends there.
Crystal Evans
#89. The pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
Agnes Repplier
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Anonymous
#91. Imaginary friends are like books. We're created, we're enjoyed, we're dog-eared and creased, and then we're tucked away until we're needed again.
Katherine Applegate
#92. The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
William Faulkner
#93. My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.
Deborah Roberts
#94. There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.
Norman MacCaig
#95. Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.
Fulton J. Sheen
#96. Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.
Carmela Dutra
#97. The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.
Sue Monk Kidd
#98. Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having.
Susie Derkins
#99. In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#100. I find Facebook absolutely fascinating because I don't think there's ever been any one source that had so much information about each of us - who we talk to, who our friends are, what books we read, what we're buying, what movies we saw, what our travel is.
Rick Smolan
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