No Substitute For Books Quotes

#1. There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952)

Mary Ellen Chase

#2. Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. No book or theory can serve as a substitute for lived experience.

Marty Rubin

#4. A longing for books [is] nothing compared with what you [can] feel for human beings. The books [tell] you about that feeling. The books [speak] of love, and it [is] wonderful to listen to them, but they [are] no substitute for love itself.

Cornelia Funke

#5. I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

Nathan Fillion

#6. A book is a good substitute for a man. Fiction, preferably

Kamala Suraiyya Das

#7. Books are no substitute for experience working with people, so now that you've read this book on leadership, go out and interact with people before you read any more.

Gerald M. Weinberg

#8. My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.

Elizabeth Bowen

#9. Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about.

Alice Sebold

#10. Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning the pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty.

J.K. Rowling

#11. Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson