Books Are My Only Friends Quotes

#1. Books are the best friends a girl could have.

Andrea Heltsley

#2. When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

Vivek Wadhwa

#3. I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

Barry Eisler

#4. There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women ... and Messi

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#5. I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

Ian Rankin

#6. I don't read books, but I have friends who do.

George W. Bush

#7. Books are our best friends we say, so can we call 'Paragraphs' as our 'Just Friends'?

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#8. If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. Books make the best ersatz friendships.

Nenia Campbell

#10. Books like friends should be few and well-chosen.

Samuel Paterson

#11. But Luke would never be friends with a girl, even if they were into the same things - like locking me in closets with brutish boys from school, or setting the books I was reading on fire.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#12. Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. 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

#14. So now books were her only friends. She'd read Lord of the Rings so often she could recite whole scenes by memory.
It was not a skill that aided one in becoming popular.

Kristin Hannah

#15. I looked up at the shelf that held my books. I had dozens now. Faithful friends who took me on journeys without judgement and without pity.

Kaje Harper

#16. My books are friends that never fail me.
(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)

Thomas Carlyle

#17. 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

#18. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#19. There's a reason my only friends are written words

Victoria Aveyard

#20. I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#21. 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

#22. It holds my essential stuff, including a book - for true contentment, one must carry a book at all times, and great books so rarely fit, my friends, into one's pocket[ ... ]

Michael Chabon

#23. I miss being a student," said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours among the books.

Helen Simonson

#24. I've got a lot of books in my head, so hopefully we can be friends for a long time. With all my heart, mind, body, and soul ... thank you!

James Dashner

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. Only friends steal books.

Roger Zelazny

#29. I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.

Zoe Heller

#30. When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.

Guillaume Musso

#31. To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish. I am Malala. My world has changed but I have not.

Malala Yousafzai

#32. ...her dearest friends are characters in books.

Sarah J. Maas

#33. 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

#34. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

#35. 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

#36. I write to get ideas out of my head

Bobbi Kay

#37. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

Oliver Goldsmith

#38. 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

#39. Her only friends on the estate were books, and books can talk but do not listen.

David Mitchell

#40. One of the advantages of reading books is that you get to play with someone else's imaginary friends, at all hours of the night.

Sunwolf